Alexandra LoBianco

Soprano

Biography

American soprano Alexandra LoBianco, whom the Seattle Times exclaimed, “gave an impassioned performance” as the title role in Aida at Seattle Opera, has established herself as a dramatic soprano of unequaled versatility, musicality and consistency. In the 2023-2024 season, Ms. LoBianco will open the Seattle Symphony’s season, singing Brünnhilde’s Immolation Scene in Götterdämmerung, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with Inland Northwest Opera, and in concert, Verdi’s Requiem with the Madison Symphony.

Recent seasons have included Brünnhilde in Die Walküre at Seattle Opera, Marianne Leitmetzerin in Die Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera, Alice Ford in Falstaff with the Santa Fe Opera, the Mother in Hansel and Gretel at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Foreign Princess in Rusalka at the Canadian Opera Company, the title role in Turandot with Palm Beach Opera and Maryland Lyric Opera, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana with Seattle Opera, the title role in Tosca with Seattle Opera and Portland Opera, Leonore in Fidelio and Brünnhilde in Siegfried with North Carolina Opera, Fata Morgana in The Love for Three Oranges with Des Moines Metro Opera, and finally, the Overseer and Confidante in Elektra at the Metropolitan Opera, as well as the cover of Aida.

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Reviews

“Her large, dark voice has an exciting edge in the upper reaches. LoBianco repeatedly soared over the full orchestral and choral forces. She managed to capture Amelia’s desperate state, radiating real fear at the sight of the gallows” 

Lawrence Budmen

South Florida Classical Review

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“ Undaunted by having to strike silent-movie facial expressions and claw the air with Freddy Kruger fingernails, Alexandra LoBianco invested the titular ice-princess with a steely yet pliant dramatic soprano that fearlessly rode the crests of orchestral sound produced in the pit.”

John von Rhein,Chicago Tribune 

“…the Des Moines Metro Opera company presented Alexandra LoBianco in the title role of Puccini’s final opera. With force, lyricism, and an absolutely huge top, Miss LoBionco was fire and ice, succumbing to the unnamed Prince (Jonathan Burton) and winning over the audience…”

John S. Twinam, OperaWire 

“…LoBianco’s ‘widely terraced dynamics and intensity turned both of Amelia’s arias into high wire displays of emotion, tottering on the brink of unhinged. She is a dramatic soprano of great promise.'”

BWW News Desk, Broadway World