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Biography

Moldova born and Berlin native mezzo-soprano Alexandra Ionis studied at the Berlin Universität der Künste and the Milan Conservatorio di musica Giuseppe Verdi and was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where she was taught by Renata Scotto among others.
Already during her studies she took part in Aribert Reimann's opera Melusine/Pythia at the Berlin UdK under Errico Fresis and Frank Hilbrich.

Since then, her love of contemporary and modern music has been demonstrated numerous times, including Widmann's Babylon and Reimann's Gespenstersonate/Mumie at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Britten's Death in Venice under Donald Runnicles and Graham Vick at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berg's Wozzeck/Margret at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia under James Gaffigan, and the two world premieres Die Schneekönigin (Tischlerei der Deutschen Oper Berlin) and Subotnik (Neuköllner Oper) by the composer Samuel Penderbayne.
In addition, she sang in the world premiere of Péter Eötvös' opera Sleepless at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with revivals in Geneva and Budapest and could recently be heard in a staged project with music by Zimmermann (director: Calixto Bieito) with the Gürzenich Orchestra under the direction of François-Xavier Roth at the Philharmonie Köln and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.

Other opera engagements in recent seasons include Roßweiße in Die Walküre under the direction of Stefan Reck at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and under Juraj Valčuha at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Il viaggio a Reims/Maddalena and Il trovatore, both under Giacomo Sagripanti at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Maddalena at the Dresden Semperoper, Annina/Der Rosenkavalier at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin (Simone Young/André Heller), as well as Annina/Rosenkavalier, Ulrica/Un ballo in maschera and Marcellina/Le nozze di Figaro at the Chemnitz Opera House.

Her concert repertoire includes works by Pergolesi, Bach, Rossini, Verdi, Mahler, Shostakovich, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov.

Highlights of the previous season were Schwertleite in the new Ring production at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (director: Dmitri Tcherniakov) under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann and Thomas Guggeis, the revival of the popular production Die Schneekönigin at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the world premiere of the children's opera Robin Hood (M. dall'Ongaro) at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, in which she sang the role of the Nurse.

Projects in the 2023/24 season include revivals of Die Walküre at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Il viaggio a Reims and Die Schneekönigin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, as well as the new production of Elektra/3rd Magd (director: Philipp Stölzl) with the Berliner Philharmoniker under Kirill Petrenko in Baden-Baden and in concert at the Berlin Philharmonie. Further, Ionis can be heard in concert performances of Zimmermann's Die Soldaten/Stolzius' Mutter with the Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra and François-Xavier Roth (director: Calixto Bieito) in Cologne, Hamburg and Paris.

As of this season, Ionis is a member of the ensemble at Theater Bielefeld, where in her first season she can be experienced as Anaide in Leoncavallo's Zazà, Mrs Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff, and in the mezzo part in Verdi's Requiem, among others.

Alexandra Ionis is a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Society since 2018.

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Management

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Repertoire

Repertoire Concert

Bach, J.S.	Christmas Oratorio
Beethoven	Missa Solemnis
	Symphony no 9
Mahler	Symphony no 3 (alt solo)
Rossini	Petite messe sollenelle (alt solo)
Verdi	Messa da Requiem

Repertoire Opera

Bartók	Bluebeard's Castle	Judith
Bizet	Carmen	Carmen*
Britten	Death in Venice	Beggar / 4th alto
Dall'Ongaro	Robin Hood (UA)	Nutrice
Donizetti	La Favorite	Léonor de Guzman*
Leoncavallo	Zazà	Anaide
Martinu	The Greek Passion	Katerina
Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana	Santuzza*
Mozart	Die Zauberflöte	3rd Lady
	La clemenza di Tito	Sesto
	Le nozze di Figaro	Marcellina
Offenbach	Les contes d'Hoffmann	Voix de la tombe
Penderbayne	Die Schneekönigin	Räubertochter, Prinzessin, Lappin
Reimann	Gespenstersonate	Die Mumie
	Melusine	Pythia
Rossini	Il viaggio a Reims	Maddalena
Saint-Saens	Samson et Dalila	Dalila*
Strauss	Der Rosenkavalier	Annina
	Die Ägyptische Helena	Elfe
	Elektra	3rd Magd
Verdi	Aida	Amneris*
	Don Carlo	Eboli
	Falstaff	Ms. Quickly
	Il trovatore	Azucena*
		Inez
	Un ballo in maschera	Ulrica
Wagner	Der fliegende Holländer	Mary
	Die Walküre	Fricka
		Rossweisse
		Siegrune
		Schwertleite
	Götterdämmerung	2nd Norn
	Tannhäuser	Venus
Widmann	Babylon	Septette
Zimmermann	Die Soldaten	Stolzius‘ Mutter

*in Vorbereitung

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Press

Un ballo in maschera / Oper Chemnitz / 03.12.17 / theaterfoerderverein-chemnitz.de

"Wie leicht oder wie glänzend kommt rüber, was doch so schwer zu singen ist"

Un ballo in maschera / Oper Chemnitz / 02.12.17 / concerti.de

"das Profil eines sehr gut entwickelten Mezzosoprans"

Der Rosenkavalier / Oper Chemnitz / 08.10.17 / der-neue-merker.eu

"mit einem voluminösen Mezzo"

Gespenstersonate / Werkstatt der Staatsoper Berlin / 28.06.17 / badische-zeitung.de

"mit mächtigem Mezzo und enorm fokussiert"

Gespenstersonate / Werkstatt der Staatsoper Berlin / 27.06.17 / anaclase.com

"l'excellente Mumie d'Alexandra Ionis"

Gespenstersonate / Werkstatt der Staatsoper Berlin / 26.06.17 / tagesspiegel.de

"mit bemerkenswerter Stimmkraft und emotionaler Präsenz"

Mahler 3. Sinfonie / Kurhaus Bad Bevensen / 05.01.17 / barftgaans.de

"Makellos die Mezzosopranistin"

Die ägyptische Helena / Deutsche Oper Berlin / 09.04.16 / konzertkritikopernkritikberlin.wordpress.com

"fußflinke und schön singende Solistinnen"

News

Off to the Wagner Olympics!

Also this year, Bayreuth audiences can look forward to Mika Kares who will once again sing the role of Hagen (Götterdämmerung) in the revival of the RING, this time under the musical direction of Simone Young. Among others, he will be joined by Alexandra Ionis, who is making her Bayreuth debut this summer and can be heard for the first time as 2nd Norn in Götterdämmerung and Siegrune in Die Walküre.
Performance dates: 29.7. (Die Walküre), 2.8. (Götterdämmerung), 21.8. (Die Walküre), 25.8. (Götterdämmerung).

In addition to the above mentioned roles, Alexandra Ionis will also be on stage as Mary in this year's children's opera Der Fliegende Holländer: 25/26/27/28/30/31 July & 01/02/03 August 2024

Another festival debutant is soprano Flurina Stucki, who can be seen and heard as Hirt in Tannhäuser (Tobias Kratzer/Nathalie Stutzmann) from July 26th and as Flower Maiden in Parsifal (Jay Scheib/Pablo Heras-Casado) from July 27th. Alongside Andreas Schager in the title role, Betsy Horne is again cast as Flower Maiden and 1st Squire.