Alexandra Kassouf is a performer and teacher, based in Chicago, IL. She has performed as both a singer and a dancer with Opera Columbus, Queen City Opera, Cincinnati Chamber Opera, Folks Operetta, Contemporary Dance Theater, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company of Chicago. Recently, Alexandra performed as the Cinder and a Solo Animal in L’enfant et les sortilèges at the Florentine Opera. She joined the Grant Park Music Festival as a chorus member for their 2022 season, and she performed in the ensemble of the US premiere of Die Kathrin with Folks Operetta.

As a soloist, Alexandra has performed at the Constella Festival, the Accent 11 Festival, Performance and Time Arts, virtually with Milwaukee Opera Theatre, and with Anima Children’s Choir. She performed the US premiere of Michael Csanyi-Wills’ 3 Budapest Songs at the Constella Festival. With Fresco Opera Theater, she premiered the role of Clara Schumann in Clara, and with Evanston Chamber Opera the role of Gwendolyn in Francis Lynch’s For Those in Peril.

She has choreographed two operas for Queen City Opera, Wagner’s Siegfried and Weber’s Der Freischütz, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona for Cincinnati Chamber Opera, and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen at CCM.

Alexandra is also a founding member of Avimimus, a vocal duo specializing in early music and new works. During their 2020-2021 season, Avimimus released several virtual programs, including 2 full length multimedia concerts, a miniature program of miniatures, and a world-premiere of Steve Landis’s Evocations. The duo will soon be releasing their recent hall recording of Evocations, a nine-movement piece for unaccompanied vocal duo.

Currently, Alexandra teaches Alexander Technique classes at UW-Milwaukee, as well as voice lessons and Alexander Technique lessons in her private studio. She is a certified Alexander Technique teacher (M.AmSAT) and has recently taught workshops at the Florentine Opera, the University of Memphis, CIVIC MUSIC, UW-Milwaukee, and Johnston Voice Studio. She earned a Master of Music at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UW-Milwaukee, where she also studied dance.