Soprano Alexandria Shiner is a Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, now the Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition, and continues to garner critical acclaim for her “blazing soprano” (The Wall Street Journal).
In the 26/27 season, Alexandria returns to The Metropolitan Opera for Der Rosenkavalier (Marianne Leitmetzerin) and Maria Stuarda (Elisabetta cover) and to The Glimmerglass Festival for Rusalka (Foreign Princess).
Last season, Alexandria returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for fully staged performances of Die Walküre (Gerhilde) conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and joined the North American tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera (Ensemble; Carlotta cover).
In the 24/25 season, she returned to The Metropolitan Opera for Die Zauberflöte (Erste Dame) and Die Frau ohne Schatten (Die Kaiserin cover). She also debuted with The Cleveland Orchestra in a fully staged production of Die Zauberflöte (Erste Dame) under Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a fully staged Frank Gehry production of Das Rheingold (Wellgunde) conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. She also joined the roster of Lyric Opera of Chicago for Der fliegende Holländer.
Recent highlights include Shiner’s Metropolitan Opera debut in Elektra (Die vierte Magd) conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles, followed by a return for Simon McBurney’s Die Zauberflöte (Erste Dame) under Nathalie Stutzmann. She has appeared with Washington National Opera in Elektra (Die vierte Magd; Die Schleppträgerin), Il trovatore (Leonora cover), and Come Home: A Celebration of Return; Wolf Trap Opera in Ariadne auf Naxos (title role) and Der Freischütz (Agathe); and The Glimmerglass Festival in Il trovatore (Leonora), Gods and Mortals, and To the World. Other operatic engagements include her Arizona Opera debut in The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess) and joining the roster of Lyric Opera of Chicago for Ernani.
On the concert stage, Shiner made her Los Angeles Philharmonic debut at the Hollywood Bowl in Die Walküre (Gerhilde) under Gustavo Dudamel and has appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra and Victoria Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.
A graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera, Shiner appeared with the company in The Magic Flute (First Lady), The Consul (Magda), Don Carlo (Celestial Voice), the world premiere of Kamala Sankaram’s Taking Up Serpents (Kayla), and Handel’s Alcina (title role). Additional credits include the North American premiere of Liszt’s Sardanapalo (Mirra) and Il barbiere di Siviglia (Berta) with Washington National Opera and The Glimmerglass Festival. Concert work includes Schmitt’s Psaume XLVII with the Choral Arts Society of Washington.
2026-2027
