The French soprano Alexandra Marcellier took her first violin lessons at the age of six; at the age of 19, she decided to devote herself to singing. She studied with the soprano Maryse Castets at the Conservatoire in Bordeaux and won the Young Singer’s Prize (Prix Jeune Espoir) at the vocal competition of the Friends of the Grand Théâtre / Opéra de Bordeaux. For three consecutive years she took part in masterclasses with Silvana Bazzoni Bartoli at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival. As a prize-winner at the 2017 Osaka International Music Competition, she participated in a gala concert in 2019 at New York’s Carnegie Hall.
Alexandra Marcellier made her professional debut in 2018 in Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the Opéra de Bordeaux. She went on to perform Gabriel in Haydn’s Creation at the Festival Musique Sacrée in her home city of Perpignan and Eurydice in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice with the vocal ensemble Ariana Médoc. In 2019 she sang the role of Belinda in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Festival Eure Poétique et Musicale in Normandy.
In 2021 Alexandra Marcellier appeared as First Wood Nymph in a recording of Dvořák’s Rusalka at the Opéra de Limoges and made her debuts at the Opéra de Saint-Étienne and the Opéra de Monte-Carlo as Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly). The following year she sang Poulenc’s La Voix humaine at the Milan Auditorium and toured a programme of works by Joe Hisaishi. In the 2022/23 season she sang Vitellia (La clemenza di Tito) alongside Cecilia Bartoli on tour with Les Musiciens du Prince — Monaco, Micaëla (Carmen) at the Opéra de Marseille and at the Chorégies d’Orange, Alice Ford (Falstaff) at the Opéra de Nice and Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège. She also made a celebrated debut at the Frankfurt Opera in her signature role of Cio-Cio-San.
Her engagements following her Salzburg Festival debut as Vitellia will include returns to the Opéra de Marseille as Cio-Cio-San, to the Opéra de Saint-Étienne as Nedda (Pagliacci) and to Liège as Massenet’s Thaïs.
In 2023 she was awarded the title of ‘Revelation: Opera Singer’ at the Victoires de la Musique Classique
