About

American soprano Alexis Seminario is a singer-artist dedicated to sharing stories that empower people and inspire vulnerability. This season Alexis will return to Palm Beach Opera as an Edward H. Benenson Young Artist. She will play the role of Annina in La traviata and cover Countess in Le nozze di Figaro. Alexis spent the 23’-24’ season with Palm Beach Opera as a Cornelia T. Bailey Apprentice Artist. As an apprentice, Alexis covered Clotilde in Norma and study-covered Antonia & Giulietta in Les contes d'Hoffmann. Alexis spent the 22’-23’ season with The Atlanta Opera as a Glynn Studio Artist. Season credits included: Kate Pinkerton, cover (Madama Butterfly), Donna Anna, cover (Don Giovanni), Ensemble (Candide), Woglinde & Wellgunde, cover (Das Rheingold).

Alexis just spent an inspiring summer in Aspen, Colorado with the Aspen Music Festival and School as a Renée Fleming Artist. Alexis played Gertrud in the festival’s production of Hänsel und Gretel under the baton of Patrick Summers. She also sang both Sieglinde (stepping in for Ms. Tamara Wilson)  & Helmwige in the program’s end of summer presentation of the third Act of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre conducted by Robert Spano featuring Christine Goerke & Greer Grimsley. This summer, she will cover Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw and Ortlinde in Die Walküre with The Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist. She spent two vibrant summers as an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera. At DMMO she covered the leading role, Soldier, in DMMO’s production of The Falling and The Rising. She also appeared in scenes as Clarissa Vaughan (The Hours), Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and Antonia (Les contes d'Hoffmann). In the 2022 season she covered the role of Rose in DMMO’s highly anticipated premiere of A Thousand Acres. As an apprentice, she appeared in scenes from Mazzoli’s Proving Up as Ma Zegner, Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and Helmwige (Die Walküre). During her time in the Bard College Conservatory Vocal Arts Program, Alexis appeared as Monica in The Medium and Frau Fluth (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor) in the Vocal Arts Programs German Aria Scenes concert. Alexis had the honor of being a part of Bard SummerScape’s inaugural Apprentice Program. Her other operatic role experience includes Atalanta (Xerxes), Lusya (Moscow Cheryomushki) Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). Alexis is a proud alum of the Houston Grand Opera: Young Artists Vocal Academy.

Engaging in projects that inspire social change is a pursuit that Alexis takes seriously. While obtaining her Master’s Degree at Bard, Alexis presented two passion projects. In collaboration with mezzo-soprano Sam Rauch, Alexis and Sam created a virtual recital film celebrating the lives and relationships of influential queer women authors that they named “I Bear Your Colors”. Queerness has always been present in classical music, but rarely is a queer love story openly and unapologetically shared through a classical idiom. Despite this lack of tangible representation, there are a magnitude of deeply beautiful, compelling, and thrilling stories to be told. The concert was filmed in the drawing room of Hyde Park’s Vanderbilt Mansion. The second project was her graduating recital which was called “Femme Fatale”. The project explored the creation of a femme fatale through Innocence, Growing Up, Vulnerability, Betrayal, Revenge and Healing. (More information on both projects can be found under the projects tab.)

Concert work is another passion for Alexis. In September 2022, she was the soprano soloist in Dvořák’s Te Deum with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra led by Valentina Peleggi. Other concert credits include being the soprano soloist in The Orchestra Now’s performance of Brahms’ German Requiem at the Fisher Center and being a featured recitalist in two consecutive years with the Bard Music Festival (Nadia Boulanger and Her World in 2021 & Rachmaninoff and His World in 2022). Alexis is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music (MSM) where she was given several awards and acknowledgments both musically and academically. In 2018-2019 she was awarded the Presser Scholar scholarship through The Presser Foundation for musical and academic achievement. In 2018 she performed as a soloist in Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy for MSM’s centennial concert celebrating the opening of Neidorff Karpati Hall. Alexis is a current Semi-Finalist in Houston Grand Opera’s Concert of Arias as well as a current Southeast Regional Finalist in the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. She received an encouragement award from The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2023. In the Spring of 2021 Alexis was awarded the Shirley Rabb Winston Voice Scholarship as well as placing second in the 2021 ENY/NATS Virtual Art Song Festival. Alexis is a recipient of an Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant and was the third prize winner in The Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition in Spring of 2023. Alexis was a Semi-Finalist in the John Alexander National Vocal Competition as well as a Finalist in the D’Angelo Young Artist Competition.