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The American soprano/mezzo-soprano, music researcher, and private voice and piano teacher, Alexis Rodda, obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in English with minors in Music and German from Princeton University (2006-2010); her Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Mannes College of Music: The New School (2011-2013), and currently attends CUNY Graduate Center as a Five-Year Fellowship recipient and doctoral candidate (since 2014; expected graduation: June 2025). At Princeton University, she was a Lewis Center for the Arts grant winner to create and sing a new opera by composer Maxwell Mamon, Rosaleen, which had its premiere in Richardson Auditorium. She was a 2013 Boston Metropolitan Opera National Council District Winner and Regional Finalist, a 2014 NYC Metropolitan Opera National Council Encouragement Award Winner, and a 2014 Elebash Grant Winner. She was a 2016 Serge & Olga Koussevitsky Young Artist Award Finalist and a Violetta DuPont Competition Encouragement Award Winner. Most recently, she won a grant, the Elebash Award, to travel to Munich and explore the works of exiled Austrian composer, Egon Lustgarten, at the Lahr von Leitis Archive. In 2019-2020, she was a Fulbright Scholar in Austria.
Alexis Rodda is a classically-trained soprano described by New York Classical Review as having “a lovely voice, full of color and body in every register.” A strong proponent of new music, she premiered four new works in the past two years including the leading role in a full length opera, A Taste of Damnation, by Avner Finberg. Upcoming operatic roles include Miss Jessel in Benjamin Britten's Turn of the Screw. Previous operatic roles include Miss Jessel in Turn of the Screw, Agathe in Der Freischuetz, Second Lady in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Hanna in The Merry Widow, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Nora/Alice in She, After, The Witch in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mimi in La Boheme, Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, and Penelope in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria.
Alexis Rodda enjoys frequent concert engagements in the New York City area. Additionally, she is a professional singer at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. She also sings with Marsh Chapel Choir of Boston University (Director: Scott Allen Jarrett). She also has an active voice and piano studio in the New York/Connecticut region.
Apart from her music performance career, Alexis Rodda has been Director of Sacred Music at Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Roman Catholic Church in Queens, New York (September 2020-May 2022); Program Coordinator at Elysium Between Two Continents Inc in New York City (June 2021-November 2023); Administrator at St. Paul's Choir School in Cambridge (August 2023-July 2024); Development Assistant at Harvard Business School in Boston (July 2024-May 2025); Associate Director of Annual Giving at Choate Rosemary Hall (since October 2025). |
