Photo: AP Wilding
Alexandra (Sasha) Cowell
Primary Skill:
Soprano
Nationality:
British, American
Country:
United Kingdom
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Languages (fluent):
English, Italian, French, Spanish
Experience
Opera
Micaëla and Frasquita
Carmen (Bizet)
Rogue Opera
2022
Mimi
Opera in the Garden: A Modern Opera Love Story (Various)
Rogue Opera
2021
Clorinda
La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Rogue Opera
2020
Gretel (future)
Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck)
co-production with Barefoot Opera
2020
Donna Anna
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Rogue Opera
2019
Micaëla
Carmen (Bizet)
Rogue Opera
2018
Frasquita
Carmen (Bizet)
Rogue Opera
2018
First Lady
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
St John's Opera
2017
Ariadne
Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss, R)
Barefoot Opera with InterOpera
2017
Mimì
La bohème (Puccini)
Clyde Opera Group
2016
Fiordiligi
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Tessitoura
2015
First Lady
The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2014
Fiordiligi
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2014
Fiordiligi
Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Opera'r Ddraig
2013
Female Chorus
The Rape of Lucretia (Britten)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2013
Mother / Sandman / Dew Fairy
Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck)
Opera San Jose (Outreach productions)
2011
Bianca
La Rondine (Puccini)
Opera San Jose
2010
Georgette
La Rondine (Puccini)
Opera San Jose
2010
Pousette
Manon (Massenet)
Opera San Jose
2009
Operetta/G&S
Isabel
The Pirates of Penzance (Sullivan)
Lyric Theatre of San Jose
2008
Chorus
Chorus
Faust (Gounod)
Opera San Jose
2012
Chorus
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Opera San Jose
2011
Chorus
La Boheme (Puccini)
Opera San Jose
2011
Chorus
Tosca (Puccini)
Opera San Jose
2010
Chorus
Carmen (Bizet)
Opera San Jose
2009
Chorus
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Opera San Jose
2008
Oratorio/Concerts
Soprano Soloist
Opera Gala (Various)
Rogue Opera
2022
Soprano Soloist
Rule Britannia (Thomas Arne)
Birmingham Gay Symphony Orchestra
2017
Soprano Soloist
Vesperae solennes de Confessore (Mozart)
Chepstow Choral Society
2013
Soprano Soloist
Requiem in D minor (Bruckner)
Chepstow Choral Society
2013
Other
Steph
Dress Rehearsal (Various)
Sarastro Productions
2016
Female Chorus / Calypso / Ellen Orford
Britten's Women (Britten)
RWCMD at the Bath International Music Festival
2013
Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled
Awards
Leverhulme Scholarship (2014)
Competitions
Emmy Destinn Young Singer Competition Finalist (2015)
Education
Master of Arts in Opera Performance
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
2012–2014
Bachelor of Science in Music and an Outside Field (BSOF) in Flute Performance and French
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
2003–2007
Preparatory Division Graduate
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
1998–2002