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 is currently a Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist at the Washington National Opera. Of Polish-American heritage, she captured First Prize in the Partners for the Arts, the Marcella Sembrich International, Gerda Lissner Foundation, and Violetta DuPont competitions, 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 in Ariadne auf Naxos, a role she reprised for Wolf Trap Opera in the summer of 2019. She is an alumna of Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts.
