Soprano Tayla Alexander has accumulated a wide range of accolades and achievements in her short career. Tayla is the youngest-ever singer to receive a scholarship to the New Zealand Opera Studio, a first-class honours graduate of the University of Auckland’s Bachelor of Music programme, an alumna of the Wanganui Opera School, and was one of New Zealand Opera’s 2023 Studio Artists. Having performed several principal roles in our 2023 season of The Unruly Tourists, she was also a chorus member of our 2022 season of Macbeth, and in last year’s Così fan tutte.
Other major roles for Tayla include Helene (Der Häusliche Krieg, Brisbane National Opera), Maria (West Side Story, in concert with Auckland Philharmonia) and, most recently, a 16-show run as Christine (Phantom of the Opera) in Tokyo, Japan. This August, Tayla will commence a one-year intensive masters programme at the Royal Academy of Music in London, followed by an opera programme.