Aléxa Anderson

Aléxa Anderson is a soprano with a voice described by Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle) as a “magical gift” and “glorious,” based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has soloed with companies such as the San Francisco Symphony, Apollo Symphony, Gradus ad Parnassum, the San Francisco Opera Guild, West Edge Opera, Golden Gate Opera, Lamplighters Music Theatre, Pocket Opera, West Bay Opera, Lyric Theatre of San Jose, and Opera Cultura singing the roles of Mimi (La Bohéme), Musetta (La Bohéme), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte), Die Königen der Nacht (Die Zauberflöte), Mariana (Das Liebesverbot), Melisande (Ariane et Barbe-Bleue), Phyllis (Iolanthe), Princess Ida (Princess Ida), Adina (L’Elisir d’amore), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Sara (La Llorona), among others. She is so excited to be making her Opera San José debut, playing the role of Rosalba in Florencia en el Amazonas. Upcoming engagements include creating the role of Olga Talamante in ¡Chicanísima! with Quinteto Latino. Aléxa has an active teaching life, consistently training award-winning singers and performers of high caliber. She lives in the tiny coastal town of El Granada, spends her free time on fiber arts (flatbed machine knitting), and has four opera-loving cats.