Alexis Rodda

• 2021 Opera Viva! Competition Semi-Finalist
• 2019 – 2020 Fulbright Austria Grant Winner
• CUNY Graduate Center Five-Year DMA Fellowship
• 2018 Elebash Grant Music Research Awar
• 2017 Milton Cross Young Artist Award
• 2016 Violetta DuPont Competition Encouragement Award
• 2016 Musician’s Guild of New York Competition Semi-Finalist
• 2014 Metropolitan Opera National Councils NYC District Encouragement Award Winner
• 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council District Award Winner and Regional Finalist

Alexis Rodda is a soprano described by New York Classical Review as having “a lovely voice, full of color and body in every register.” She attended Princeton University (BA), Mannes College (MM), and currently attends CUNY Graduate Center as a Five-Year Fellowship recipient and doctoral candidate.

This past summer, Alexis was a Vocal Fellow with the Spoleto Festival, where she covered the title role of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa. This season, she appeared in the world premiere of Aaron Zigman’s Émigré with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and sang on the subsequent recording by Deutsche Grammaphon. She recently sang in the New York premiere of Émigré with the New York Philharmonic. Other appearances with the New York Philharmonic Chorus include Orchestrating Maestro with Bradley Cooper, Adolphus Hailstork’s Done Made My Vow, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She also sang with the Mostly Mozart Festival orchestra this past summer in Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. This coming summer, she will attend Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voice as an Emerging Artist.

As a music researcher dedicated to uncovering musical works lost to discrimination, hatred, or other political, societal, or historical conflicts, Alexis has worked closely with the nonprofit organization Elysium Between Two Continents in presenting multimedia musical and theatrical productions that uncover the works of exiled composers. Recent performances that Alexis curated and performed include Innovators in Exile, Healing a Fractured World: The Music of Egon Lustgarten, and Campaigning for Women’s Rights – Fighting against Fascism.

This past spring, in collaboration with the exil.arte Zentrum of Vienna, the Leo Baeck Institute of New York, and Elysium Between Two Continents, she created and produced a three-day music festival Innovators in Exile, which marked the centennial of the founding of the International Society for Contemporary Music and featured those composers forced to emigrate during World War II. This spring, she will perform in a multicity tour of Innovators in Exile in Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt.

She was a 2020 Research Fellow at the Morgan Library Library & Museum in New York City, researching the Ballets Russes in anticipation of a future exhibition. In March 2019, she was chosen for a 2019 - 2020 Fulbright scholarship; she worked with Dr. Gerold Gruber and Dr. Michael Haas at the Exilarte Center of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna to unearth the works of émigré composer Egon Lustgarten.

Previous operatic roles include in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with Bronx Opera in Spring 2022, Agathe (Der Freischütz), Miss Jessel (Turn of the Screw), include Second Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Hanna (The Merry Widow), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Nora/Alice (She, After), The Witch (Hansel und Gretel), Berta (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Mimi (La Boheme), Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), and Penelope (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria).