Alexandra Deshorties
French-Canadian soprano / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexandra Deshorties (born 1975) is a French-Canadian soprano who sings principally opera. She was born in Montreal and raised in Marseille, France, where she attended the Conservatory and "where she earned a gold medal/first prize for her performance in vocal juries."[1] She continued her education at the Manhattan School of Music where she was a pupil of Patricia Misslin.[2]
A winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions (and a participant in the National Council Winners Concert on 2 March 1997)[3] at 21, she entered the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist program the following season[4] and made her debut with the company as the High Priestess in Aida on 30 October 1999.[3] She has since appeared in a large number of roles both with the Met (where she sang Elettra (Idomeneo), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), The Countess (The Marriage of Figaro), and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte)[4] and with other companies throughout the world.