London based Australian soprano Alexandra Oomens is a Harewood Artist with English National Opera. She is a graduate of the Royal Academy Opera Programme at the Royal Academy of Music, and an alumna of the Georg Solti Accademia, where she worked with Maestro Alessandro Corbelli, Barbara Frittoli, and Sir Richard Bonynge.
This season Alexandra will sing Elsie in Yeoman of the Guard, A lady in waiting in a concert version of Gloriana, and Frasquita in Carmen for ENO. She will also make her debut at The Grange Festival as Euridice in Gluck’s Orfeo and Belinda in Dido and Aeneas. In concert she will perform in Mendelsohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Messiah with The King’s Consort, Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri with Pinchgut Opera and the French premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Puzzles and Games with Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France at the festival Présences.
In the 2023-2024 season Alexandra will be adding the roles of Pamina and Papagena to her repertoire, both with English National Opera.
Alexandra has performed as a soloist with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Eroica Ensemble, and the Orchestra of the Antipodes. Her repertoire includes Bach’s Easter Oratorio, and Telemann’s Die Donner Ode (Pinchgut Opera), Exsultate, Jubilate (Amersham Festival of Music), Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen and Coffee Cantata (Canberra International Music Festival), Bach’s B Minor Mass (Song Company), and Vivaldi’s Gloria (Gondwana Choirs) as well as in various recitals and concerts at the London Coliseum, the Concertgebouw, the Sydney Opera House, the Melbourne Recital Hall, and the City Recital Hall.
Alexandra holds an Advanced Diploma of Opera, a Master of Arts (Hons), and an Honorary DipRAM for outstanding performance (Royal Academy of Music), and a BMus (Hons.) from the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney. During her time at the Royal Academy of Music, she was a RAM/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata soloist, the winner of the 2018 Michael Head Song Prize, and a member of the prestigious Royal Academy Song Circle. She is extremely grateful for the generosity and sponsorship of the Carr-Gregory Trust Scholarship, and John Baker Opera Award during her time with the RAO.
