About Alexandra

With a magnetic stage presence and captivating artistry described as “soul-stirring” (Voice Magazine Santa Barbara), American soprano Alexandra Rose Hotz is equally at home on the opera, concert, and recital stages. She has been seen as Crobyle in Massenet’s Thaïs at the Spoleto Festival, 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, she will join Angels Lyric Opera in LA as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore and as Zweite Dame in Die Zauberflöte with the Aspen Music 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 Art Song Competition. She also joined the Toronto Summer Music Art of Song program this July, coaching with Roger Vignoles and Mary Bevan. She frequently collaborates with violist Tatjana Masurenko in her Viola Plus series at the Colburn School, performing works for viola, voice, and piano. 

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 a Career Grant from the Pasadena Vocal Competition. This season, she was named a finalist and grant winner from the Gerda Lissner International Art Song Competition. Alexandra was a winner of the Los Angeles District and a Special Encouragement Award Winner from the Western Regional of the Laffont Metropolitan Opera Competition. This spring, she will compete in the Opera Naples Luciano Pavarotti Vocal Competition as well as the Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition. 

Currently based in Southern California, she recently received the Doctorate of Musical Arts at the Eastman School of Music, where she also received her Masters under the tutelage of Anthony Dean Griffey. She is currently on the faculty at Chapman University in Orange, California.