biography

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Soprano Lexi Hutton (credited also as “Alexandra“) grew up in the small Australian country town of Bingara and is currently based in Germany. She has been a principal ensemble member of the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 2015. Her roles there include Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Musetta (La Bohème), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Despina (Cosi fan tutte), Lisette (La Rondine), Lisa (La Sonnambula), Helena (A Midsummer Nights Dream), Samaritana (Francesca da Rimini), Tebaldo (Don Carlo), Belinda (Dido and Aeneas), 4th/5th Magd (Elektra), Blumenmädchen (Parsifal), Xenia (Boris Godunov), Olympia/Giulietta/Antonia (Hoffmann), and 2nd Niece (Peter Grimes). 

Lexi made her role and house debut as Oscar (Un ballo in Maschera) with the Staatstheater Darmstadt in 2019 and has appeared as Lisette in La Rondine with both Oper Graz and at the 17th Daegu International Opera Festival. She will make her house debut at the Komische Oper Berlin in May as Iphis in Handel’s Jephtha.

On live television in December 2019 Lexi sang an operatic homage to legendary film director and actor Werner Herzog at the European Film Awards. She was also a member of the winning team at the 2020/21 Ring Award in Graz where she appeared as Zerlina in Don Giovanni. 

In 2014, Lexi delighted over 22,000 people with her lively performance as Papagena in an outdoor production of Die Zauberflöte in the Berlin Waldbühne.

Other roles include Comtesse Adele (Le Comte Ory), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Adina (L’elisir d’amore), Marzelline (Fidelio) and Annina (La Traviata) at the Staatsoper Berlin with Maestro Daniel Barenboim. As a Britten-Pears Young Artist she sang Miss Wordsworth in Oliver Mears’ production of Albert Herring with Steuart Bedford and Dame Felicity Lott as Lady Billows. She also sang the 1st Niece in Peter Grimes for the 2013 Aldeburgh Music Festival, both in concert at Snape Maltings as well as in the critically acclaimed production on Aldeburgh Beach. 

Lexi appears on a number of recordings and DVDs including the Grammy nominated Christoph Loy production of Jenufa, Francesca da Rimini and Rolando Villazon’s 2015 production of La Rondine all at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She appears as the 1st Niece in the award winning DVD of Peter Grimes (on the beach) from the Aldeburgh Festival, and Live CD recording in concert in Snape Maltings. With less that one week’s notice, Lexi joined the original cast at Oper Leipzig and the Gewandhaus Orchester to sing the role of Virginia in the world premiere recording of Gordon Getty’s The Canterville Ghost.

She has appeared as Soprano soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs at Cadogan Hall in London and in Mozart’s Requiem. She has sung at the Berlin Philharmonie as a Blumenmädchen (Parsifal) and Ortlinde (Die Walküre) with Maestro Donald Runnicles and in Hänsel und Gretel with Maestro Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. She performed Bach‘s cantata ‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen’ at the Konzerthaus Berlin with the Kammerorchester Berlin and Maestro Igor Bundinstein. 

Lexi is excited to be slowly returning to the stage after giving birth to her first child in 2022.