Meet Alexis

Boston-based mezzo-soprano Alexis Peart has been praised for her “plush yet robust voice” and “incredible clarity" in roles ranging from baroque operas to world premiere performances. She is a 2023 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition New England Region finalist, Boston District Winner, and a 2023/2024 Jane & Steven Akin Emerging Artist with Boston Lyric Opera. This season, she debuts with Boston Lyric Opera as Tisbe (La Cenerentola), Big Stone (Eurydice), and covers Dorothée (L’Amant Anonyme). Peart also makes her Princeton Festival debut as Dorabella (Cosí fan tutte) and is a featured soloist with the Rochester Oratorio Society, Assabet Valley Chorale, Jubilate Chorale, Seaglass Theater Company, and Castle of our Skins. She spent the summer as a Young Artist with Chautauqua Opera, covering the title role in La Tragédie de Carmen.

During the 2022/2023 season, Alexis performs as the Voice of Israel in R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses with the Rochester Oratorio Society, the Mezzo soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Boston University Philharmonic Orchestra. She has appeared frequently with the Boston University Opera Institute, this season as Jo in Mark Adamo’s Little Women, Ruggiero in Handel’s Alcina, and Mrs. Somes in Ned Rorem’s Our Town, and in the 2021/2022 season as Brittomara in Jake Heggie’s If I Were You and Taller Daughter in Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up. Alexis is a two-time alumna of the Wolf Trap Opera Studio (2020/2021) and 2022 winner of the Boston University Carnegie Hall Competition.

Especially apt with new music, Alexis debuted the role of Ada Lovelace in the world premiere workshop of Elena Ruehr’s The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage with Guerilla Opera and presented the first live performance of Love in the Time Of, a world premiere song cycle commissioned by Boston Opera Collaborative. She can be heard on the Grammy-nominated recording of Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X produced by Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera, and on several art song recordings released by PARMA Recordings, LLC.

Operatic highlights include the title role in Handel’s Giulio Cesare (Chicago Summer Opera), Der Trommler in Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis and Bessie in Kurt Weill’s Mahagonny-Songspiel (Eastman Opera Theater), Léonore in Andre Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise and Cupid in John Blow’s Venus and Adonis (Eastman Collegium Musicum), in addition to serving as the alto soloist in Bach Canata’s 102, 48, and 79, and Handel’s Messiah, and the alto soloist cover in Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium with Eastman Philharmonia.

Alexis holds a B.M. in Voice Performance and Music Education from the prestigious Eastman School of Music and an M.M. in Voice Performance and M.S. in Arts Administration from Boston University.