Mezzo-soprano Alexandra Bass was born and raised in Southern California.  She earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, while studying with Lorraine Manz.  Performance highlights at Oberlin include Mrs. Grose (The Turn of the Screw), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), as well as both Sorceress and Spirit (Dido and Aeneas).  She is also an alumna of Oberlin in Italy, the Taos Opera Institute, and SongFest’s Young Artist Program. 

Upon graduating, Alexandra returned to Los Angeles where she has been seen in various productions including Carmen with Vox Visceralis, Faust with Valley Opera & Performing Arts, and The Mikado, Iolanta, and The Elixir of Love with Pacific Opera Project.  During the pandemic, Ms. Bass performed virtually in projects by Santa Monica College, as well as SongFest’s digital concert, ‘Songs of Unity and Hope’.  Alexandra has been a member of The Verdi Chorus since 2019 and has been a Walter Fox Singer with them since 2021. In 2022 she performed her role debut as Mercedes in Carmen with Landmark Opera, and spent the summer at the Toronto Summer Music Festival as an Art of Song Academy Fellow.  In 2023 she performed her role debut as Kate in Pacific Opera Project’s production of The Pirates of Penzance and was a featured soloist in The Verdi Chorus’ concert “This and My Heart: A Portrait of Emily Dickinson and Her Words Through Text and Song”. This past year she sang Chorus and covered Suzuki in Pacific Opera Project’s bilingual Madama Butterfly sung in both Japanese and English, and finished the year as the Alto Soloist in the Japanese Messiah Project’s annual Messiah sung in Japanese. She regularly sings with the Opera Santa Barbara Chorus and is preparing to sing as Betsy Rebensky in Lyric Opera of Orange County’s upcoming production of The Mighty Casey. This February, she is debuting the role of Haruko Shimono in the World Premiere of The Camp: An Opera in Two Acts.

Alexandra is also a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.