upcoming schedule.
Boston Pops
Holiday Pops on Tour
Keith Lockhart, Conductor
December 6th, 2019 8 pm, Worcester, MA
December 14th, 2019 8 pm, Storrs, CT
December 15th, 2019 4 pm, Newark, NJ
December 21st, 2019 7:30 pm, Manchester, NH
Handel's Messiah
55th Annual Messiah Sing
Alto Soloist
9 Ayer Road
Harvard, MA
December 22nd, 2019
the mezzo.
Alexandra Dietrich, a Puerto Rican American originally from Freeport, Maine, is a mezzo-soprano who is being praised for singing with "passion and understanding". Ms. Dietrich joined the University of Southern Maine in the Fall of 2019 as Artist Faculty in Voice. She, herself, is a proud graduate of the University of Southern Maine with a Bachelor's in Music Performance, and attended the Longy School of Music for her Graduate Performance degree in Opera. Her 2019-2020 season opens Odyssey Opera's concert performance of "Henry VIII" where she sang as a Page and Maid of Honor, and as the Alto Soloist in the Metropolitan Chorale and Chorus pro Musica's collaborative performance of Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" and Kodály’s "Budavári Te Deum". This February, she joins the Voice Faculty in a performance on the Faculty Concert Series with Dr. Malinda Haslett at the Univserity of Southern Maine.
Ms. Dietrich has performed with many New England area opera companies and orchestras including Odyssey Opera, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, OperaHub, and MetroWest Opera where her performance as Jo March in Adamo's "Little Women" was hailed as "large of personality with an instrument to match", possessed "polish and star power", and was awarded the ArtsImpulse Award for Best Female Performer in an Opera for her portrayal.
This past season found Ms. Dietrich returning to perform as the Alto Artist in Residence with the Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline, and to performances with the Boston Pops, Odyssey Opera and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. She also made her debut with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" featured as a Bird soloist, which was recorded on the BMOP record label. Her 2018-2019 season closed with Ms. Dietrich performing featured back-up vocals for Josh Groban at Tanglewood at the Koussevitsky Music Shed in Lenox, MA.
Favorite roles to date include Anita in "West Side Story" with Asheville Lyric Opera, Jade Boucher in the New England premiere of "Dead Man Walking", Carmen in NEMPAC Opera's "Carmen", and as Zita in "Gianni Schicchi" with the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra, where her performance was toasted as "deliciously bitchy" (Portland Phoenix).
As a soloist, she has sung with the Portland Symphony Pops, the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra, the Charlemagne Orchestra of Belgium, the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, the Longy Chamber Orchestra, and the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, Ms. Dietrich appeared as the alto soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Brown University Orchestra, under the baton of Paul Phillips. In 2009, Ms. Dietrich was awarded both 1st place in the Professional Division of Maine NATS, but also the coveted Lillian Nordica Award, where she sang a recital in the Lillian Nordica Auditorium on the date of the famous soprano's last recital in the auditorium named in her honor.
"The dominant figure in the narrative, Jo, as Alexandra Dietrich conveyed her was large of personality with an instrument to match. She traced the evolution of the protagonist with polish and star power...But throughout all solos and ensembles in which she figured so centrally, Dietrich’s Jo ruled indefatigably."
- Boston Musical Intelligencer
past productions.
Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Kodály’s Budavári Te Deum
Alto Soloist
Metropolitan Chorale & Chorus pro Musica
November 2019
Henry VIII
Page & Maid of Honor
Odyssey Opera
September 2019
Josh Groban
Featured Back-up Quartet
Tanglewood
July 2019
La boheme
Lattivendola
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
January 2019
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Bird 5
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
January 2019
Elijah
Alto Soloist
Paul Madore Chorale
August 2018
Carmen
Vendeuse Orange
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra
January 2018
Trial at Rouen
Heavenly Voices Trio
Odyssey Opera
November 2017
All Night Vigil
Alto Soloist
Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline
November 2017