Alexandra Dinwiddie is a British mezzo-soprano and graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she studied with Kathleen McKellar Ferguson and Elizabeth McCormack with the support of the Freemen of the City of Norwich. She holds a BA Hons in Music from the University of Bristol, during which she represented the university in the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize with Musica Britannica, and attended the Morley Opera School in London under Alice Farnham.

Most recently, Alexandra has performed the roles of Nancy (Albert Herring) and Hansel (Hansel and Gretel) with St Paul’s Opera, Lola in Verismo, Opera on Location’s unique new take on Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, and Ensemble and cover Lelio in Gothic Opera’s UK premiere double bill of Louise Bertin’s Le Loup-garou and Pauline Viardot’s Le Dernier Sorcier. She will return to St Paul’s Opera in December to sing Mother/Hunter for their Christmas production Little Red and the Big Bad…, a reimagining of César Cui’s Little Red Riding Hood.

Other operatic roles have included Armelinde (Cinderella), La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi) and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) with St Paul’s Opera, Olga (Eugene Onegin) with Edinburgh Studio Opera, Maurya (Riders to the Sea) with Morley Opera and the Brandenburg Sinfonia, Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) with Microscopera, and Pitti Sing (The Mikado) with Grosvenor Light Opera Company at the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival.

As a concert soloist, Alexandra’s recent highlights have included the world premiere of Edwin Hillier’s Dhātu at Glasgow Cathedral Festival, Elgar’s Sea Pictures with EUMS Sinfonia at Greyfriar’s Kirk, Dvorák’s Stabat Mater at St Mary’s Cathedral Edinburgh, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Bach’s Christ lag in todesbanden with Kelvin Choir, and a gala concert of Music from the Movies with Glasgow Orchestral Society at the RSNO Centre. In November 2022 she will perform with the Tim Kliphuis Trio in a new arrangement of Strauss’ Morgen.

Alexandra performed various roles in opera scenes at the RCS including Florence Pike (Albert Herring), The Secretary (The Consul), Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte) and La Zelatrice (Suor Angelica), all directed by Nicolette Molnar. Her other scenes include Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Fidalma (Il matrimonio segreto), Shadow Marnie (Marnie) and The Witch (Into The Woods) at Oxenfoord International Summer School, directed by Janis Kelly and Linda Ormiston, title role (Giulio Cesare) with Opera Bamba and title role (Carmen), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte) and Third Maid (Elektra) with Morley Opera.

Alexandra’s chorus work includes Jeremy Sams’ The Enchanted Island with British Youth Opera, Jonathan Dove’s The Day After with RCS Opera in collaboration with English National Opera, ensemble for Agrippina with RCS Opera, Mosquito and chorus for The Cunning Little Vixen with Co-Opera Co., and a toured production of La Bohème in the Palestinian territories with the Choir of London directed by Poppy Burton-Morgan. Prior to her undergraduate studies, Alexandra sang for an extended season at the National Theatre in their acclaimed production of Coram Boy directed by Melly Still.

Alexandra grew up in London and attended James Allen’s Girls’ School in Dulwich. She is a regular cellist with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra, and PA to composer Eleanor Alberga OBE and violinist Thomas Bowes, and Artistic Administrator for Music Link International.