about alexis
Italian-American soprano Alexis Seminario was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2025 Butler Opera International Competition. Last summer, she was an Apprentice Artist with The Santa Fe Opera where she covered Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw and Ortlinde in Die Walküre. This upcoming season she will return to The Santa Fe Opera to cover the role of Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly and make her role and stage debut as Matron in Lili Elbe. Her summer culminated in her performance as Rosalinda from Die Fledermaus under the baton of Ivan Lopez-Reynoso in a scene staged by Patricia Racette. She also received The Anna Case McKay Memorial Award for her extraordinary artistry over the summer. In January, Alexis was contracted to participate in the Dallas Opera Hart Institute 10th Anniversary Concert singing “In Questa Reggia”, however the concert was canceled due to inclement weather. During the 2025-2026 season, Alexis returns to The Atlanta Opera as a Studio Artist where she will make her company debut as Annina in La traviata, sing Félicie/Adédaïde in La Belle et la Bête, cover La Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro and Liù in Turandot.
Ms. Seminario is a Southeast Regional Finalist in the 2026 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, a Finalist in the 2026 Saengerbund Awards, and was a Finalist in the 2025 Houston Grand Opera Concert of Arias. During the 2024-2025 and 2023-2024 seasons, she was both a Laufer Young Artist and Cornelia T. Bailey Apprentice Artist with Palm Beach Opera. There she made her role and company debut as Annina in La traviata, covered La Contessa in Le nozze di Figaro, and Clotilde in Norma, while also study-covering Antonia and Giuletta in Les contes d’Hoffman.
During summer 2024, Alexis joined the Aspen Music Festival and School as a Renée Fleming Artist where she debuted the role of Gertrude in Hänsel und Gretel under the baton of Maestro Patrick Summers. In their season closing concert, she sang both Sieglinde and Helmwige in Act III of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre conducted by Robert Spano, alongside Christine Goerke & Greer Grimsley. Prior to her time in Aspen and Palm Beach, Alexis was a Studio Artist with The Atlanta Opera where her assignments included covering Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Woglinde & Wellgunde in Das Rheingold, and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.
Alexis spent two summers as an Apprentice Artist with Des Moines Metro Opera where she discovered her affinity for new operatic works. She covered the leading role of Soldier in The Falling and the Rising and Rose in the highly anticipated world premiere of A Thousand Acres. Over her two summers, her scene assignments included Clarissa Vaughan in The Hours, Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Ma Zegner in Proving Up, Helmwige in Die Walküre, and Antonia in Les contes d'Hoffmann. In the symphonic sphere, Alexis debuted with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra as the Soprano Soloist in Dvořák’s Te Deum in fall 2022.
Ms. Seminario is a proud alumna of Bard College Conservatory Vocal Arts Program where she worked closely with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and also debuted the role of Monica in The Medium. She received her Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Marlena Malas. Alexis is an alumna of Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy. She is also the recipient of awards from the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Grant, Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition, John Alexander National Vocal Competition, and D’Angelo Young Artist Competition.