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In his third season in the soloist ensemble of Landestheater Linz (2025/2026), Alexander York will sing Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, Ping in Turandot, Selpulchrave in Irmin Schmidt’s fantasy opera Gormenghast, and Adam in Mike Svoboda's Adam und Eva.
Since joining ensemble in Linz, the American baritone has been seen as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, Ruggiero in Halévy’s La juive, and Kilian and Ottokar in Der Freischütz. Additional credits include the world premieres of Svoboda’s Adam und Eva at the SWR-Festspiel and Reinhard Febel’s Benjamin Button.
As a guest artist around Europe, York recently sang Marcello in La bohème and Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Musica Le Mans Festival in France. Other engagements include Ned Keene in Staatstheater Augsburg's Peter Grimes, Escamillo in Carmen at Opéra Grand Avignon, and Dr. Falke in Brandenburg Theater's Die Fledermaus – a last-minute jump-in this past New Year's Eve.
While a student at the Munich Conservatory of Music, York made his Bayerische Staatsoper debut in Viktor Ullmann's Der zerbrochene Krug as the Bedienter and sang the role of James Ramsey in the world premiere of Zesses Seglias' To the Lighthouse at the Bregenz Festival. York has also been a fixture of the stage at Theater Augsburg – firstly, making his European debut as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, and following that up with Angelotti in Tosca, the Captain in Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Simplicius Simplicissimus, and Kelvin (Off stage) in Dai Fujikura’s Solaris.
Directly after graduating from Munich, York joined the opera studio at the Opéra de Paris. Highlights of his work there include singing Tarquinius in Britten's Rape of Lucretia, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, and the Horloge comtoise and Le chat in Ravel’s L'Enfant et les sortilèges. Concerts and recitals during that period brought him to important venues around France, in Évian-les-Bains, Amiens, Metz, and Grenoble. In October 2022, he was invited by the Opéra de Paris to present a series of concerts in Tokyo.
York’s work in Paris earned him a feature in Opéra Magazine. In September 2020, he was awarded the “City of Gordes Prize” as well as the “Best Young Baritone or Bass Prize” at the International Competition of Art Song [Concours international de la mélodie] in Gordes, France. Upon joining the Académie in Paris, York received the Richard F. Gold Career Grant. At the end of his time in the opera studio, he was invited to the Academy of the Verbier Festival in Switzerland to sing Schaunard in La bohème.
York’s concert and sacred repertoire includes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. John's Passion and Weihnachtsoratorium, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, and orchestral performances of Ravel’s Don Quichotte à Dulcinée and Mahler’s 14 Lieder und Gesänge. Most recently he performed Puccini's Messa di gloria and Nicolai’s Messe in D.
In addition to his operatic pursuits, York holds a deep passion for Art Song and Lied, having studied in Munich with Lars Woldt, Rudi Spring, Donald Sulzen, and Andreas Schmidt. York has presented recitals around Europe, including at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the American Cathedral of Paris, Opéra Grand Avignon, the Art Museum and the Tonali Saal in Hamburg, and at the Seidlvilla in Munich. Together with his wife, soprano Alexandra Flood, he has performed Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch in Brisbane, Australia. While he has performed the songs of many different composers, he feels at home in the works of Mahler, Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Ravel, Poulenc, Duparc, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Barber.
York was a winner of the prestigious Fulbright Research Grant, a winner of the Hanns-Seidel Foreign Student Grant, and has been supported by the arte-Musica Foundation in Frankfurt. He was awarded a Luminarts Fellowship, a Bel Canto award from the Bel Canto Society of Chicago, and was the runner up in the Art Song/Oratorio division of the American Prize. He is a graduate of Lawrence University in Wisconsin and received his master's degree from Northwestern University.
Before making his way to Europe, York made the rounds in the American summer festival scene. At the Aspen Opera Center, he performed as Snooks in William Bolcom’s A Wedding. As an Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera, York jumped in on one day’s notice to sing Cervantes/Don Quixote in Mitch Leigh’s Man of La Mancha, performed Baron Duphol in La Traviata, and received the prestigious John Moriarty Award.
Since joining ensemble in Linz, the American baritone has been seen as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Silvio in Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci, Ruggiero in Halévy’s La juive, and Kilian and Ottokar in Der Freischütz. Additional credits include the world premieres of Svoboda’s Adam und Eva at the SWR-Festspiel and Reinhard Febel’s Benjamin Button.
As a guest artist around Europe, York recently sang Marcello in La bohème and Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro at the Musica Le Mans Festival in France. Other engagements include Ned Keene in Staatstheater Augsburg's Peter Grimes, Escamillo in Carmen at Opéra Grand Avignon, and Dr. Falke in Brandenburg Theater's Die Fledermaus – a last-minute jump-in this past New Year's Eve.
While a student at the Munich Conservatory of Music, York made his Bayerische Staatsoper debut in Viktor Ullmann's Der zerbrochene Krug as the Bedienter and sang the role of James Ramsey in the world premiere of Zesses Seglias' To the Lighthouse at the Bregenz Festival. York has also been a fixture of the stage at Theater Augsburg – firstly, making his European debut as Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, and following that up with Angelotti in Tosca, the Captain in Karl Amadeus Hartmann's Simplicius Simplicissimus, and Kelvin (Off stage) in Dai Fujikura’s Solaris.
Directly after graduating from Munich, York joined the opera studio at the Opéra de Paris. Highlights of his work there include singing Tarquinius in Britten's Rape of Lucretia, Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus, and the Horloge comtoise and Le chat in Ravel’s L'Enfant et les sortilèges. Concerts and recitals during that period brought him to important venues around France, in Évian-les-Bains, Amiens, Metz, and Grenoble. In October 2022, he was invited by the Opéra de Paris to present a series of concerts in Tokyo.
York’s work in Paris earned him a feature in Opéra Magazine. In September 2020, he was awarded the “City of Gordes Prize” as well as the “Best Young Baritone or Bass Prize” at the International Competition of Art Song [Concours international de la mélodie] in Gordes, France. Upon joining the Académie in Paris, York received the Richard F. Gold Career Grant. At the end of his time in the opera studio, he was invited to the Academy of the Verbier Festival in Switzerland to sing Schaunard in La bohème.
York’s concert and sacred repertoire includes Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St. John's Passion and Weihnachtsoratorium, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, and orchestral performances of Ravel’s Don Quichotte à Dulcinée and Mahler’s 14 Lieder und Gesänge. Most recently he performed Puccini's Messa di gloria and Nicolai’s Messe in D.
In addition to his operatic pursuits, York holds a deep passion for Art Song and Lied, having studied in Munich with Lars Woldt, Rudi Spring, Donald Sulzen, and Andreas Schmidt. York has presented recitals around Europe, including at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, the American Cathedral of Paris, Opéra Grand Avignon, the Art Museum and the Tonali Saal in Hamburg, and at the Seidlvilla in Munich. Together with his wife, soprano Alexandra Flood, he has performed Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch in Brisbane, Australia. While he has performed the songs of many different composers, he feels at home in the works of Mahler, Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Ravel, Poulenc, Duparc, Rachmaninoff, Vaughan Williams, and Barber.
York was a winner of the prestigious Fulbright Research Grant, a winner of the Hanns-Seidel Foreign Student Grant, and has been supported by the arte-Musica Foundation in Frankfurt. He was awarded a Luminarts Fellowship, a Bel Canto award from the Bel Canto Society of Chicago, and was the runner up in the Art Song/Oratorio division of the American Prize. He is a graduate of Lawrence University in Wisconsin and received his master's degree from Northwestern University.
Before making his way to Europe, York made the rounds in the American summer festival scene. At the Aspen Opera Center, he performed as Snooks in William Bolcom’s A Wedding. As an Apprentice Artist with Central City Opera, York jumped in on one day’s notice to sing Cervantes/Don Quixote in Mitch Leigh’s Man of La Mancha, performed Baron Duphol in La Traviata, and received the prestigious John Moriarty Award.