Australian lyric coloratura soprano Alexandra Flood has principal soloist of the Vienna Volksoper since 2022. 24/25 roles include Queen of the Night/The Magic Flute, Frasquita/Carmen, Princess Fantasia/Le voyage dans la lune (dir. Laurent Pelly) and Adele/Die Fledermaus.

Past seasons include Clorinda/La cenerentola, Gretel/Hänsel und Gretel, Musetta/La bohème, and Pamina/The Magic Flute. In the coming seasons, Alexandra will tour with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, give role debuts as Mable/Pirates of Penzances and Olympia/Les contes d’Hoffmann in Vienna, and make her company debut with Opera Australia in La Bohème and The Merry Widow in 2026.

Alexandra began her career as a young artist at the Salzburg Festival (Blonde/Die Entführung aus dem Serail für Kinder, Modistin/Der Rosenkavalier). Whilst completing her Masters in Munich, Alexandra debuted as Marguerite/Le Petit Faust (Hervé) at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, performed Norina/Don Pasquale at Opéra Krakow, Vixen/The Cunning Little Vixen with Pacific Opera, Sydney, Blonde/Entführung at the Bregenz Landestheater, the soprano lead in J. Dove’s church-opera Tobias and the Angel with the Munich Radio Orchestra and Violetta in Traviata Remixed with at the Grachten Festival Amsterdam.

Alexandra has since enjoyed a flourishing solo career including appearances as Maria/West Side Story in Bolzano, Italy, the world premiere of Moritz Eggert’s opera Caliban at the Dutch National
Opera, Nannetta/Falstaff at Malmö Opera, Barbarina/Le nozze di Figaro at Teatro Réal, Jemmy/ Guillaume Tell with Victorian Opera, Norina/Don Pasquale at the Bregenz Landestheater, and Elle/ La voix humaine with Opera Queensland, Female Chorus/The Rape of Lucretia with the the Opéra de Paris Académie. In concert, Alexandra has appeared with the Adelaide, Queensland, Moravian, Rossini, National (US) Bochum and Berlin Symphony, the St Petersburg and Vienna Philharmonic, the Southwest and Polish Radio Orchestras and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, in such venues as KKL Luzern, Bolshoi Opera Minsk, St Petersburg Grand Philharmonic Hall, Berlin Philharmonic, Teatro la Fenice, Vienna Concert House, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and the and the Sydney Opera House.

During her studies, Alexandra was generously supported by the Opera Foundation for Young Australians, the Australian Music Foundation, the Melba Opera Trust, the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, the Youth Music Foundation and the siaa foundation.

Alexandra is the Artistic Director of the Queensland Art Song Festival, an educational initiative focused on bring performance and practice opportunities in classical art song to young Australians.