Alexandra Deshorties continues to distinguish herself as one of the leading young sopranos of her generation.

This season, Ms. Deshorties makes her debut in Valencia as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. She recently made her debut at the Los Angeles Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and her role debut as Violetta in La Traviata at the Arizona Opera. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, Alexandra Deshorties has developed a strong relationship with the Metropolitan Opera over the past few seasons.  She made her house debut as the High Priestess in Aida, and has since appeared as Elletra in Idomeneo, Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte,  First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Donna Anna in a new production of Don Giovanni, Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos (which was taped for television broadcast), and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, all of which were conducted by James Levine. She also appeared as Musetta in La Bohéme, Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Alexandra Deshorties continues to distinguish herself as one of the leading young sopranos of her generation.

This season, Ms. Deshorties makes her debut in Valencia as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. She recently made her debut at the Los Angeles Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and her role debut as Violetta in La Traviata at the Arizona Opera. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, Alexandra Deshorties has developed a strong relationship with the Metropolitan Opera over the past few seasons.  She made her house debut as the High Priestess in Aida, and has since appeared as Elletra in Idomeneo, Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte,  First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Donna Anna in a new production of Don Giovanni, Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos (which was taped for television broadcast), and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, all of which were conducted by James Levine. She also appeared as Musetta in La Bohéme, Tytania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Other past opera engagements have included Fiordiligi at the San Francisco Opera, the Seattle Opera, the Cincinnati Opera,  the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the La Coruña Festival in Spain, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and in the Jonathan Miller production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Donna Anna at the Cincinnati Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival (in the Peter Brook production which was released on DVD in Europe), and the Gstaad Festival in Switzerland; and Elletra at the Houston Grand Opera.  She also made her role debut as Cleopatra in Guilio Cesare at the Seattle Opera, and sang the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and the Countess at the Portland Opera Repertory Theater.

On the concert platform she has appeared with the Munich Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic (at the Hollywood Bowl), Seattle Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the IRIS Chamber Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, and at the Salzburg Festival. Conductors with whom she has worked include David Atherton, Edward Gardner, Daniel Harding, Rene Jacobs, James Levine, Esa-Pekka Salonnen, Robert Spano, Michael Stern and Patrick Summers.   She has also performed selections from Berlioz' Les Nuits d'été, Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzes, and vocal music by Anton Weber with Maestro Levine and the Met Chamber Ensemble in Weill Recital Hall.

Ms. Deshorties studied at the Marseilles Conservatory, where she earned a gold medal/first prize for her performance in vocal juries. She continued her education at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1999, she was the 1^st place winner of the Leonie Rysanek memorial prize from the George London Foundation Auditions.