In repertoire spanning from Monteverdi to Gregory Spears, Alexandra Schoeny is known for her versatility and engaging stage presence. With a voice hailed as "hauntingly beautiful" by Opera News, she is equally praised for her convincing character portrayals as she "embodies melodrama with flair," (Broadway World). 

In 2021, Alexandra returns to Cincinnati Opera in a new role, assistant directing the world-premiere opera Fierce by William Menefield. In December, she appears with new vocal ensemble The Union in their inaugural concert and returns in May to perform Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass. Returning to the Reno Philharmonic in April, she was a soloist for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She appears as part of the May Festival series with a recital of music by Fanny Hensel, Florence Price, Marion Bauer, and Lili Boulanger.

In 2020 Alexandra and Ellen Graham (mezzo-soprano) collaborated with pianists Marie-France Lefevbre and Matthew Lobaugh on a recital of all female composers, including Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Alma Schindler Mahler, and Florence Price, performed in Cincinnati and at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.

Alexandra returned in the 18-19 season to the Cincinnati Pops for music of Offenbach, and to the Reno Philharmonic for Mozart’s eternal Requiem. She made her Pacific Opera Project debut as Pamina in their Nintendo-themed Magic Flute. She appeared with Cincinnati Opera as Najade in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. She was heard in recital in Cincinnati in a program entitled The Bells, with music by Jonathan Dove, Libby Larsen, and Samuel Barber with acclaimed Metropolitan Opera pianist Marie-France Lefevbre. She also returns to Collegium Cincinnati for Bach’s Mass in b-minor.

In 2018, Alexandra made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in their program "Bernstein and Beyond." She appeared as Stone and Mrs. Morris in the world premiere of Zac Greenberg's experimental rock opera The Bradbury Tattoos with concert.nova. Her Cunegonde (Candide) in a co-production with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Alliance Theatre was deemed "show-stopping" by the Atlanta press. She returned to the role of Miss Lightfoot in Gregory Spears' Fellow Travelers  at the Prototype Festival in New York and appeared as the soprano soloist in Carmina Burana with Cincinnati Ballet. She also made her Atlanta Symphony debut in music of J. Strauss and Bernstein. 

Operatic roles include: Donna Anna, Erste Dame, Pamina, Zerlina, Dircé (Medée), Sofia (Il Signor Bruschino), Clarina (La cambiale di matrimonio), Adina (L'elisir d'amore), Thérèse (Les mamelles de Tirésias), Marie-Christine (Galileo Galilei), Frasquita, Mrs. Julian (Owen Wingrave), Miss Lightfoot (Fellow Travelers), Nella (Gianni Schicchi). Oratorio appearances include Messiah, Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mozart's Requiem, Faure's Requiem, Lord Nelson Mass, Theresienmesse, St. Matthew Passion, Mass in b-minor, Carmina Burana, Finzi's In Terra Pax, Mahler's Symphony No. 4, and Barber's Knoxville: Summer of 1915. 

Alexandra has performed with ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and May Festival Chorus, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, Het Residentie-Orkest (The Hague), het Nederlands Jeugd-Orkest, the Omaha Symphony, the Reno Philharmonic, the Eugene Symphony, and in venues including Het Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Das Konzerthaus (Berlin), the Palace of Versailles, the Kimmel Center, and the Mann Center.

Alexandra can be heard as Miss Lightfoot on the original cast recording of Gregory Spears' Fellow Travelers on the  Fanfare Cincinnati label.

An active educator as well as performer, Alexandra is a founder of Crossover Camp, a program for performers who wish to successfully straddle the divide between musical theatre and opera. With her partner Trevor Kroeger, she founded Breath Collective to produce and develop new, exciting encounters with vocal music. A native of Cincinnati, Alexandra attended the College-Conservatory of Music (DMA), the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague (M. Opera), the Royal Academy of Music (M.Mus, DipRAM), and Northwestern University (B.M). She is an alumna of Aspen Music Festival, English National Opera OperaWorks, and the Britten-Pears Programme. 

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