Alexandra Loutsion, a Pittsburgh area native, is a first-year Resident Artist with Pittsburgh Opera. In the 2010-11 season she is slated to perform as Berta/The Barber of Sevilleand Armida/Rinaldo. Ms. Loutsion will also be seen in the upcoming Rising Starsconcert and will perform an Art Song Recital with Resident Artist Adam Fry.
In the Summer of 2010 as an Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera, Ms. Loutsion sang Cio-Cio San in the Madama Butterfly family performance. She also performed as Minerva in Orpheus in the Underworld.
In April 2010, Ms. Loutsion sang Isabella in the west coast premiere of Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot with the USC Thornton Opera as a featured production of Ring Festival LA. Previous roles at USC include Donna Anna/Don Giovanni, Alma/Summer and Smoke and Fay Doyle in the west coast premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Miss Lonelyhearts. Other roles include Witch in the Los Angeles premiere of The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth with Vera Ikon Productions, Second Woman in The Dido Project with Sybarite 5, Sie in Hartmann’s Wachsfiguren Kabinett with the Aspen Music Festival, and Anna Glawari in The Merry Widow with Ithaca College Opera.
Ms. Loutsion recently had the honor of singing for His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Athenagoras Human Rights Award Weekend Celebration in New York City. Recent awards include Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions District winner, the John Moriarty Award from Central City Opera, and Aspen Music Festival New Horizon Fellowship.
Ms. Loutsion holds music degrees from the University of Southern California and IthacaCollege.
