Australian lyric coloratura soprano Alexandra Flood has been a member of the Vienna Volksoper soloist ensemble since 2022. 24/25 roles include Queen of the Night/The Magic Flute, Frasquita/Carmen, Princess Fantasia/Le voyage dans la lune (dir. Laurent Pelly) and Adele/Die Fledermaus. Past seasons include Clorinda/La cenerentola, Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel, Musetta/La bohème, and Pamina/The Magic Flute.
Alexandra Flood began her career as a young artist at the Salzburg Festival (Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail für Kinder, Modistin/Der Rosenkavalier), working with such luminaries as Harry Kupfer and Franz Welser-Möst. Whilst completing her Masters in Munich, Alexandra debuted as Marguerite/Le Petit Faust (Hervé) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, performed Norina/Don Pasquale at Opéra Krakow, Vixen/The Cunning Little Vixen with Pacific Opera, Sydney, Blonde/Entführung at the Bregenz Landestheater, the soprano lead in J. Dove’s church-opera Tobias and the Angel with the Munich Radio Orchestra and Violetta in Traviata Remixed with at the Grachten Festival Amsterdam.
Following her studies, Alexandra enjoyed a flourishing solo career as Maria/West Side Story in Bolzano, Italy, the world premiere of Moritz Eggert's opera Caliban at the Dutch National Opera Opera Forward Festival, Nannetta/Falstaff at Malmö Opera, Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro at Teatro Réal, Jemmy/Guillaume Tell with Victorian Opera, Norina/Don Pasquale at the Bregenz Landestheater, and Elle/La voix humaine with Opera Queensland.
In France, Alexandra appeared with the Opéra de Paris as Female Chorus/The Rape of Lucretia as a guest of the Académie, followed by concerts at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence alongside conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble. Alexandra then joined Joseph Bastian for the New Year’s Concert at the Opéra de Dijon.
Alexandra is the Artistic Director of the Queensland Art Song Festival, an educational initiative focused on bring performance and practice opportunities in classical art song to young Australians.
