Alexandra Jerinic, Mezzo Soprano, has been recognized for her musicality and vibrant, “characterful" (S.F.C.V.) performances, equally at home in dramatic and comedic
roles. She recently made a role and company debut as Madame Pernelle in Kirke Meecham’s Tartuffe with Pocket Opera. Noteworthy recent credits include Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Flora in La Traviata, her Wagner debut as Fricka in Das Rheingold in concert, as a part of the Wagner Festival of the West’s inaugural season and Lucia, with a Santuzza cover, in Opera on Tap SF’s production of Cavalleria Rusticana.

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In October of 2021, she completed a triumphant role debut as Adalgisa in Bellini’s Norma. Prior to that, she portrayed the principal role of Fanny Price in Jonathan
Dove’s Mansfield Park with Opera Modesto (U.S. Premiere, orchestrated version). In
2019 she made her European debut as Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Romana Craiova in Craiova, Romania, and made her role debut as Carmen with California Opera, to highest acclaim. The roles of Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Alisa in Lucia di
Lammermoor, and La Frugola in Il Tabarro have also proved successful, delightful, and
excellent as recognized by reviewers Donald Munro and Robert Commanday, founder of
San Francisco Classical Voice. Other special recognitions include the complement of vocal flexibility and range as displayed in the S.F. Classical Voice’s review of Elisabetta,
Regina D'Inghilterra (Matilde).

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As a Master musician, M.M., Ms. Jerinic excels in contemporary opera. World premieres
include First Musician in Vance Maverick’s At the Hawk’s Well, and Mrs. Hale in John Bilotta’s Trifles. In 2023 she participated in a new composition and intercultural
work, selections from In a Memory Palace, at Theater of Yugen and is set to reprise her role in the full production in 2026. A Menotti lover, she has sung multiple engagements as Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, as well as Baba in The Medium and Miss Proctor in the west coast premiere of The Boy Who Grew Too Fast.

Ms. Jerinic is highly acclaimed for her portrayal of Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte, and Cenerentola in La Cenerentola. Concert credits include a featured soloist with Midsummer Mozart Festival and Opera Modesto, guest soloist at Chinese
tenor Tianfu Zhang’s Carnegie Hall Recital, and Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with the Kensington Symphony Orchestra. Other oratorio credits include the alto soloist Mozart’s Requiem,  Haydn’s “Lord Nelson” Mass and multiple engagements as the alto soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth. She is a 2023 American Prize Finalist and 2025 International Voice Competition Boris Martinovich recipient of Ninth Prize.
 

A Boston area native, Ms. Jerinic is the daughter of an immigrant and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.