Coloratura
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"Nowakowski delivered with pure, splendid perfection."
BROAD STREET REVIEW
Praised by Opera News for her "impassioned singing" and "silvery voice," Alexandra Nowakowski returns to the stage for the 2021/2022 season, singing Shostakovich's Op. 127 with the Brooklyn Art Song Society. She joins the roster of The Metropolitan Opera to cover Zerbinetta in Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, and Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. She also is a recipient of the Beebe Fund fellowship.
Alexandra was a Cafritz Young Artist at the Washington National Opera for the 18/19 and 19/20 seasons and is an alumna of the Academy of Vocal Arts. Of Polish-American heritage, she captured First Prize in the Opera Columbus Cooper-Bing Competition, the Partners for the Arts Competition, the Marcella Sembrich International Competition, and the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, and was presented in recital by Vocal Arts D.C. as the winner of its Art Song Discovery Competition. She has appeared as a soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra under Stéphane Denève, the Verbier Festival under Stanislav Kochanovsky, and the Columbus Symphony under Rossen Milanov. She has sung premiere opera roles nationally and internationally, including the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina and the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Gilda in Rigoletto, Sophie in Werther, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Zerbinetta & Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos. COVID cancellations include a return Wolf Trap Opera to sing Hilde Mack in Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers, a return to the Columbus Symphony for Haydn's Creation, Mahler's 4th Symphony with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, and covering Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann with The Metropolitan Opera.
Alexandra was a Cafritz Young Artist at the Washington National Opera for the 18/19 and 19/20 seasons and is an alumna of the Academy of Vocal Arts. Of Polish-American heritage, she captured First Prize in the Opera Columbus Cooper-Bing Competition, the Partners for the Arts Competition, the Marcella Sembrich International Competition, and the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, and was presented in recital by Vocal Arts D.C. as the winner of its Art Song Discovery Competition. She has appeared as a soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra under Stéphane Denève, the Verbier Festival under Stanislav Kochanovsky, and the Columbus Symphony under Rossen Milanov. She has sung premiere opera roles nationally and internationally, including the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor, Pamina and the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte, Gilda in Rigoletto, Sophie in Werther, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, and Zerbinetta & Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos. COVID cancellations include a return Wolf Trap Opera to sing Hilde Mack in Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers, a return to the Columbus Symphony for Haydn's Creation, Mahler's 4th Symphony with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, and covering Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann with The Metropolitan Opera.
Quarantine Concerts
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