A standout performer on the opera stage, American singer Alexandra Rodrick is by turns a fiercely dominating force and a deeply sensitive storyteller.
Lauded by Opera News for her "especially healthy young voice," Ms. Rodrick has distinguished herself as a fearless singing actress with powerful vocal facility.
Rodrick's notable experiences on the opera stage include performing Carmen under the baton of Maestro Seiji Ozawa, along with his International Music Academy Orchestra, in Kyoto and Tokyo in both the 2017 and 2019 seasons, debuting the role of Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with Chautauqua Opera, and later reprising the same role with Baltimore Concert Opera.
This spring, Alexandra makes her house debut at her home company, San Diego Opera, performing Berta and covering Rosina in an innovative drive-in production of Il barbiere di Siviglia.
Rodrick has performed under the auspices of the Atlanta Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, OperaDelaware, Aspen Opera Theater, Vero Beach Opera, VEROZA Japan, Opéra Louisiane, and Green Mountain Opera Festival.
She has won awards in multiple international singing competitions including the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, the Palm Springs Opera Guild International Vocal Competition, the Mildred Miller International Voice Competition, the Deborah Voigt Vero Beach Opera Foundation Inaugural International Vocal Competition, the Musical Merit Competition of Greater San Diego, and the Metropolitan National Council Auditions.
Rodrick is an alumna of the Boston University Opera Institute, where she received the prestigious Phyllis Curtain Award and cut her teeth on such roles as Carmen, Dorabella, Hermia, and Le Prince Charmant, and Anna in Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins.
Rodrick lives in San Diego with her partner and is directly engaged in expanding and exploring the array of classical music available in the area. She is a co-founder of LA CENA È PRONTA, a project that explores the many ways in which food and music intersect, and has been producing concert and opera in Southern California for nearly a decade.
LA CENA È PRONTA.
sustainable food · artistic freedom · digital dignity
LA CENA È PRONTA ("Dinner is ready") began two years ago as a live recital series. Wishing to connect with audiences outside of the concert hall, Alexandra Rodrick, Joshua Arky and pianist Ines Irawati performed for an intimate group of guests while simultaneously cooking them a multi-course meal.
The event was so surprising and exhilarating to audiences that the LA CENA team reprised the event the following year. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, LA CENA È PRONTA extended its offerings to an online community of food and music lovers with a video series that features the same essence of culinary musical celebration that made the in-person events so exciting and one-of-a-kind.
LA CENA È PRONTA's guiding principles center around three things Alexandra is passionate about: sustainable food, artistic freedom, and digital dignity. When food and music are mindfully, sustainably, and lovingly made (and eaten), they are inherently good, nourishing, and valuable, regardless of whether or not they fit into commonly accepted standards for what makes "good food" or "good music."Recently, LA CENA È PRONTA released their first short film: "Amuse-Bouche." Alexandra, Joshua Arky, and Ines Irawati perform a recital ranging from Clara Schumann to Kurt Weill while preparing a French-by-way-of-California meal."Amuse-Bouche" is now available to stream.
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