
"With creamy, consoling pipes..." - Boston Musical Intelligencer
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the mezzo.
Alexandra Dietrich, a Puerto Rican American originally from Freeport, Maine, is a mezzo-soprano who has been praised for singing with "passion and understanding". Ms. Dietrich has performed with opera companies and orchestras including the Boston Pops, Odyssey Opera, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Pops, the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra, the Charlemagne Orchestra of Belgium, the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, the Longy Chamber Orchestra, the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra., and MassOpera 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. A frequent oratorio and concert soloist, she has recently performed with the Salem Philharmonic Orchestra, Andover Choral Society, Quincy Choral Society, Cape Cod Chorale, the Choral Art Society of the South Shore, Chorus pro Musica, and the Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline where she was an Artist in Residence for many seasons.​She appears on Boston Modern Orchestra Project's Haroun and the Sea of Stories featured as Bird 5, which was recorded on the BMOP/sound label, and on Dello Joio's The Trial at Rouen as part of the Heavenly Voice Trio, which was nominated for a 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. Notably, Ms. Dietrich performed featured back-up vocals for Josh Groban at Tanglewood at the Koussevitsky Music Shed.​ 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). ​
Ms. Dietrich joined the University of Southern Maine in the Fall of 2019 as Artist Faculty in Voice where she taught for six years.. 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. ​
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"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
select past performances.
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Durufle's Requiem
Alto Soloist
Quincy Choral Society
Mozart's Requiem
Alto Soloist
Quincy Choral Society
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Mendelssohn-Hensel’s Hiob
Mozart's Requiem
Alto Soloist
Choral Art Society of the South Shore & Cape Cod Chorale
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Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Alto Soloist
Metropolitan Chorale & Chorus pro Musica
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Josh Groban
Featured Back-up Quartet
Tanglewood​
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Elijah
Alto Soloist
Paul Madore Chorale
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Trial at Rouen
Heavenly Voices Trio
Odyssey Opera
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All Night Vigil
Alto Soloist
Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline
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