Hometown: Toledo, Ohio

With a magnetic stage presence and captivating artistry described as “soul-stirring” (Voice Magazine Santa Barbara), soprano Alexandra Rose Hotz is equally at home on the opera, concert, and recital stages. She has been seen as Frasquita in Carmen and Le Feu in L’enfant et les sortilèges with the Music Academy of the West as well as the title role in Handel’s Alcina, and Phaino in Kate Soper’s Here be Sirens with Eastman Opera Theatre. This season, Alexandra played Crobyle in Massenet’s Thaïs at the Spoleto Festival.

As a concert soloist, Alexandra has interpreted a diverse repertoire, including Bernstein’s West Side Story Concert Suite, Stephen Stucky’s Sappho Fragments, Mahler’s Second Symphony, oratorios by Handel and Haydn, and cantatas by Bach and Tom Cipullo. A passionate recitalist, Alexandra joined as a fellow for the Cincinnati Song Initiative’s inaugural Fellowship of the Song, performing in song concerts coached by Margo Garrett. This season, Alexandra made her Carnegie Hall debut in an art song recital in Weill Recital Hall as the winner of Joy in Singing’s International Song Competition.

Alexandra has been awarded Second Place in Opera Birmingham’s Vocal Competition, Third Place in the Artist Division at the NOA’s Carolyn Bailey Argento Vocal Competition, and an Encouragement Award at the Western Region of the Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition. Currently based in Southern California, she recently received her Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music, where she also received her Master’s under the tutelage of Anthony Dean Griffey.