Alexandra Deshorties continues to distinguish herself as one of the leading young sopranos of her generation.
This season Ms. Deshorties makes her debut as the title role in Medea at the Glimmerglass Festival. She recently made her house debuts at the Dallas Opera as Desdemona in Otello (opening the Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts) and the Palm Beach Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and her Canadian recital debut in Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto.
Other past opera engagements have included Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the San Francisco Opera, the Seattle Opera, the Cincinnati Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, 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 Los Angeles Opera, 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; Valentine in Les Huguenots at the Bard Music Festival, Violetta in La Traviata at the Arizona Opera, Elletra in Idomeneo at the Houston Grand Opera, Cleopatra in Guilio Cesare at the Seattle Opera, and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Portland Opera Repertory Theater. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, she made her house debut as the High Priestess in Aida, and has since appeared as Elettra, Fiordiligi, the Countess, Donna Anna, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serais, and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos (which was taped for television broadcast), all of which were conducted by James Levine. She also appeared as Musetta in La Bohème, and Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream ... read full bio
Alexandra Deshorties continues to distinguish herself as one of the leading young sopranos of her generation.
This season Ms. Deshorties makes her debut as the title role in Medea at the Glimmerglass Festival. She recently made her house debuts at the Dallas Opera as Desdemona in Otello (opening the Winspear Opera House in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts) and the Palm Beach Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, and her Canadian recital debut in Roy Thompson Hall in Toronto.
Other past opera engagements have included Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the San Francisco Opera, the Seattle Opera, the Cincinnati Opera, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, 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 Los Angeles Opera, 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; Valentine in Les Huguenots at the Bard Music Festival, Violetta in La Traviata at the Arizona Opera, Elletra in Idomeneo at the Houston Grand Opera, Cleopatra in Guilio Cesare at the Seattle Opera, and the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Portland Opera Repertory Theater. A graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Development Program, she made her house debut as the High Priestess in Aida, and has since appeared as Elettra, Fiordiligi, the Countess, Donna Anna, Konstanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serais, and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos (which was taped for television broadcast), all of which were conducted by James Levine. She also appeared as Musetta in La Bohème, and Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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 Salonen, 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 1st place winner of the Leonie Rysanek memorial prize from the George London Foundation Auditions.
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