Mezzo-soprano
Alexandra Urquiola
RusalkaBiography
Alexandra Urquiola made her debut with Irish National Opera as Aristea in Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade. Originally from New York, Alexandra graduated at the Yale School of Music and is a former member of the Merola Opera of San Francisco and the opera studio of Stuttgart State Opera. Roles she sang in Stuttgart included Dinah in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Fyodor in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and Bradamante in Handel's Alcina. In 2022 she made her debut at Madrid’s Teatro Real singing Plotina opposite Thomas Hampson in the title role of Rufus Wainwright's Hadrian, and went on to sing both the title role in Bizet’s Carmen and La Marchesa Melibea in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims for Theater Aachen. A versatile artist, Alexandra excels in concert repertoire and collaborations, including premiering Clarice Assad's song cycle Elementos at the New York Festival of Song with pianist Steven Blier. She has also appeared as mezzo soloist in Verdi’s Requiem at the Berlin Philharmonie, and as soloist in a staged adaptation of J.S. Bach’s St John Passion at Stuttgart State Opera. Last season at Deutsche Oper am Rhein, she sang Mercédès in Bizet’s Carmen, as well as performing Marcellina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro at Ópera de Oviedo, and returned to Stuttgart as Kitchen Boy in Dvořák’s Rusalka. This season, Alexandra returns to Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the title role of Sebastian Schwab’s Holle!, as Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, and as Glaša in Janáček’s Katja Kabanova.
March 2026