Alexis Lapreziosa

Alexis Lapreziosa is an emerging soprano from Philadelphia, PA. Praised for her clear, agile, and sparkling voice, Alexis is a multi-faceted artist who commands the stage with elegance and charisma. In 2021, Alexis will graduate from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance. There, she has blossomed under the tutelage of American soprano, Sheryl Woods. In 2021, Alexis will perform Celia (cover) in Handel's Silla with Chicago Summer Opera. In 2021, Alexis performed a degree recital of art song repertoire featuring works by Purcell, Bellini, Donizetti, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Poulenc, Duparc, Laitman, Heggie, and Copland. In 2021, Alexis was a soprano soloist in Hadyn’s Requiem with the Graduate Conductors Choir and orchestra at Temple University.

In 2020, Alexis sang the role of Miles in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw with the Temple University Opera Theater. In the innovative, socially distanced production, audiences marveled at the pure, ethereal quality of her voice and her compelling dramatic portrayal of Miles.

Past season highlights include her debut with Temple University Opera Theater in 2019 as Giannetta in L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti. Alexis charmed audiences with her radiant, charismatic stage presence and vibrant singing. In 2020, Alexis covered the Soprano II voice in Adamo’s Little Women. In 2019, she performed in the opera chorus of Bizet’s Carmen with Delaware Valley Opera Company in Philadelphia, PA.

Alexis has performed staged operatic scenes for the roles of Juliette from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Marie from Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, and Erste Dame from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with Temple University's Opera Workshop.

The lyric qualities of Alexis' voice shine in her performances of musical theater repertoire, where she recently placed in the Semi-Finals of the first International Oscar Hammerstein Youth Solo Contest. Alexis has also staged musical theater scenes for the roles of Johanna from Sondheim's Sweeny Todd, Amalia from Bock and Harnick's She Loves Me, and Natasha from Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.

Alexis has performed in recitals for A Modern Reveal, a Philadelphia-based organization whose mission is to promote the vocal works and stories of women composers. She also actively performs in virtual cabarets for Gemini Voices Co, an emerging theater company in Philadelphia, PA.