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Described as a 'stage-animal' (Merker), 'electrifying' (Welt) and hailed for her 'powerful soprano' (Musikultur Berlin) and 'exquisite musicality' (Opera Magazine), soprano Alexandra Hutton grew up in the small Australian country town of Bingara and is now based in Europe as a principle ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. During the 2019/20 season she will make her role debut as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as returning to many of her preeminent roles including Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Musetta (La Bohème), Adele (Die Fledermaus) and Lisa (La Sonnambula). She will make house debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich as Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and as Iphis in Handel's Jephtha at the Komische Oper Berlin. She opens her season as Lisette in La Rondine at the Daegu International Opera Festival in South Korea.
Alexandra has been honing her craft at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since making her debut there as Papagena in 2012, before joining the company as a Förderkreis Stipendiatin in the 2013/14 season. Her roles there include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Musetta (La Boheme), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Despina in (Cosi fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Lisa (La Sonnambula), Tebaldo (Don Carlo), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Frasquita (Carmen), Xenia (Boris Godunov), Olympia/Giulietta/Antonia (Hoffmann), 2nd Niece (Peter Grimes) and Lisette in Rolando Villazon's production of Puccini's La Rondine.
She made her role and house debut as Oscar (Un ballo in Maschera) with Staatstheater Darmstadt in 2019 and has appeared as Lisette in La Rondine with both Oper Graz and at the Daegu International Opera Festival in South Korea. Other roles include Comtesse Adele (Le Comte Ory), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Marzelline (Fidelio) and Annina (La Traviata) at the Staatsoper Berlin with Maestro Daniel Barenboim. As a Britten-Pears Young Artist she sang Miss Wordsworth in Oliver Mears' production of Albert Herring with Steuart Bedford and Dame Felicity Lott as Lady Billows. She also sang the 1st Niece in Peter Grimes for the 2013 Aldeburgh Music Festival, both in concert at Snape Maltings as well as in the critically acclaimed production on Aldeburgh Beach.
She appears on a number of recordings and DVDs including the Grammy nominated Christoph Loy production of Janacek's Jenufa from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rolando Villazon's 2015 production of La Rondine (also from the Deutsche Oper Berlin) and Aldeburgh Music's critically acclaimed Peter Grimes (on the beach). With less that one week's notice, Alexandra joined the original cast at Oper Leipzig and the Gewandhaus Orchester to sing the role of Virginia in the world premiere recording of Gordon Getty's The Canterville Ghost.
She has sung with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as the Soprano Soloist in Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs at Cadogan Hall and was the Soprano Soloist in Mozart's Requiem with the Philharmonic Orchestra at the recent Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral. She made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie as the 2nd Blumenmädchen (Parsifal) with Maestro Donald Runnicles and in Hänsel und Gretel with Maestro Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Alexandra has been a recipient of many awards including the City of Sydney Eisteddfod Soprano Award, the Patricia Fagan Operatic Aria, Farleigh Vocal Scholarship, Herman Shildberger Memorial Award, Wollongong Eisteddfod Operatic Aria, Robert Stolz Viennese Music Society Award, as well as the Tait Memorial Trust Googie Withers Award. She placed 2nd in the 30th International Belvedere Singing Competition (Operetta) and was also awarded the Deutsche Oper Berlin Sonderpreis.
Frequently lauded for her acting and stagecraft, Alexandra has been a passionate performer from a young age. Whilst still in high school, she competed in and won the Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia National Competition (as Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew) and participated in the 2001 National Youth production "Cry Havoc". With her vocal versatility and love of the stage, she has also appeared in many theatre and musical theatre productions in Sydney including Cathy (The Last Five Years), Cinderella/Rapunzel (Into the Woods), Jennifer (The Witches of Eastwick), Sally Brown (You're a good man, Charlie Brown), Maggie (Lend me a tenor), Meg (Seven Little Australians), Rosina (The Venetian Twins), Avril/Mallory (City of Angels) and as Hope Cladwell in the Sydney premiere of Urinetown.
Alexandra has been honing her craft at the Deutsche Oper Berlin since making her debut there as Papagena in 2012, before joining the company as a Förderkreis Stipendiatin in the 2013/14 season. Her roles there include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Musetta (La Boheme), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Despina in (Cosi fan tutte), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Lisa (La Sonnambula), Tebaldo (Don Carlo), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Frasquita (Carmen), Xenia (Boris Godunov), Olympia/Giulietta/Antonia (Hoffmann), 2nd Niece (Peter Grimes) and Lisette in Rolando Villazon's production of Puccini's La Rondine.
She made her role and house debut as Oscar (Un ballo in Maschera) with Staatstheater Darmstadt in 2019 and has appeared as Lisette in La Rondine with both Oper Graz and at the Daegu International Opera Festival in South Korea. Other roles include Comtesse Adele (Le Comte Ory), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Marzelline (Fidelio) and Annina (La Traviata) at the Staatsoper Berlin with Maestro Daniel Barenboim. As a Britten-Pears Young Artist she sang Miss Wordsworth in Oliver Mears' production of Albert Herring with Steuart Bedford and Dame Felicity Lott as Lady Billows. She also sang the 1st Niece in Peter Grimes for the 2013 Aldeburgh Music Festival, both in concert at Snape Maltings as well as in the critically acclaimed production on Aldeburgh Beach.
She appears on a number of recordings and DVDs including the Grammy nominated Christoph Loy production of Janacek's Jenufa from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Rolando Villazon's 2015 production of La Rondine (also from the Deutsche Oper Berlin) and Aldeburgh Music's critically acclaimed Peter Grimes (on the beach). With less that one week's notice, Alexandra joined the original cast at Oper Leipzig and the Gewandhaus Orchester to sing the role of Virginia in the world premiere recording of Gordon Getty's The Canterville Ghost.
She has sung with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as the Soprano Soloist in Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs at Cadogan Hall and was the Soprano Soloist in Mozart's Requiem with the Philharmonic Orchestra at the recent Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral. She made her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie as the 2nd Blumenmädchen (Parsifal) with Maestro Donald Runnicles and in Hänsel und Gretel with Maestro Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Alexandra has been a recipient of many awards including the City of Sydney Eisteddfod Soprano Award, the Patricia Fagan Operatic Aria, Farleigh Vocal Scholarship, Herman Shildberger Memorial Award, Wollongong Eisteddfod Operatic Aria, Robert Stolz Viennese Music Society Award, as well as the Tait Memorial Trust Googie Withers Award. She placed 2nd in the 30th International Belvedere Singing Competition (Operetta) and was also awarded the Deutsche Oper Berlin Sonderpreis.
Frequently lauded for her acting and stagecraft, Alexandra has been a passionate performer from a young age. Whilst still in high school, she competed in and won the Shakespeare Globe Centre Australia National Competition (as Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew) and participated in the 2001 National Youth production "Cry Havoc". With her vocal versatility and love of the stage, she has also appeared in many theatre and musical theatre productions in Sydney including Cathy (The Last Five Years), Cinderella/Rapunzel (Into the Woods), Jennifer (The Witches of Eastwick), Sally Brown (You're a good man, Charlie Brown), Maggie (Lend me a tenor), Meg (Seven Little Australians), Rosina (The Venetian Twins), Avril/Mallory (City of Angels) and as Hope Cladwell in the Sydney premiere of Urinetown.