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Alexandra Loutsion sings the title role of Salome in Richard Strauss' famous opera live from the Fisher Center at Bard on Sunday, March 20, 2022.

Scene Synopsis: Salome has danced for Herod and in return, she has been rewarded with the head of John the Baptist (Jochanaan) on a silver platter. She realizes as she has been given her greatest desire, that she is emptier now than she was before.

1:29:06 - "Es ist kein Laut zu vernehmen"

1:31:38 - "Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund"

1:44:35 - "Ah! Ich habe deinen Mund geküsst"

Cast:

Salome: Alexandra Loutsion

Jochanaan: Nathan Berg

Herod: Jay Hunter Morris

Herodias: Katharine Goeldner

Narraboth: Robert Stahley

“Allein, weh ganz allein” (Elektra's Monologue) from Elektra by Richard Strauss

Alexandra Loutsion, Soprano with Josh Quinn, Piano

Recorded October 2021

Elektra reflects on her father's murder at the hands of her mother and step father. She calls to him from the grave, and relays her dreams of the day when she and her brother Orest can avenge his death.

Alexandra Loutsion sings the title role of Isolde in the Act 2 Love Duet of Richard Wagner's famous opera live with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra on Saturday, April 20, 2024.

Federico Cortese, Conductor

Alexandra Loutsion, Isolde

Cameron Schutza, Tristan

Renee Tatum, Brangäne

Specific chapters listed on YouTube.

Act II, Sc 2 Synopsis: The lovers, at last alone and freed from the constraints of courtly life, declare their passion for each other. Tristan decries the realm of daylight which is false, unreal, and keeps them apart. It is only in night, he claims, that they can truly be together and only in the long night of death can they be eternally united ("O sink' hernieder, Nacht der Liebe"). During their long tryst, Brangäne calls a warning several times that the night is ending ("Einsam wachend in der Nacht"), but her cries fall upon deaf ears. The day breaks in on the lovers as Melot leads King Marke and his men to find Tristan and Isolde in each other's arms.

“Ambizioso spirto...Vieni t'affretta…Or tutti sorgete” from Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi

Alexandra Loutsion, Soprano with Josh Quinn, Piano

Recorded October 2021

In her opening aria, Lady Macbeth receives a letter from her husband telling her that he has been promoted to Thane of Cawdor. In the next sentence however, he explains that he encountered three witches who predicted that he will actually become King of Scotland in the near future. Lady Macbeth is excited at the prospect of this, but wonders aloud if Macbeth, in spite of his ambition, is wicked enough to take the throne and wield power. She then finds out that the King is coming to their castle that evening, and takes it as a sign. She calls to the ministers of hell to aid her in her new plan: murder the King of Scotland.

Alexandra Loutsion debuts as Brünnhilde in Virginia Opera's "The Valkyrie" by Richard Wagner with reductions by Johnathan Dove. Recorded live from the October 1, 2022 performance in Norfolk, VA.