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Moldova born and Berlin native mezzo-soprano Alexandra Ionis studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Conservatorio di musica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, and was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Accademia nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where she received valuable inspiration from Renata Scotto, among others. She deepened her love of New Music in productions such as Widmann's Babylon and Reimann's Gespenstersonate at Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Zimmermann's Die Soldaten with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and François-Xavier Roth (staging: Calixto Bieito) in Cologne, Hamburg, and Paris. She sang the world premiere of Péter Eötvös' opera Sleepless at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, which was also performed in Geneva and Budapest, and the Nurse in the world premiere of the children's opera Robin Hood (M. dall'Ongaro) at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.

Highlights of recent seasons include her debut at the Bayreuth Festival in 2024 as 2nd Norn (Götterdämmerung) and Siegrune (Die Walküre) with Simone Young, and as Mary in the children's opera Der fliegende Holländer. She also appeared as Schwertleite (Walküre) in Dmitri Tcherniakov's Ring des Nibelungen at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden with Christian Thielemann and Thomas Guggeis. As a guest she sang the Third Maid in Elektra in Baden-Baden (with Kirill Petrenko) and Stuttgart, and Maddalena (Il viaggio a Reims) at Deutsche Oper Berlin and Semperoper Dresden. In addition, she sang Annina in Der Rosenkavalier at Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Simone Young/André Heller) and at the Chemnitz Opera House, where she also appeared as Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera) and Marcellina (Le nozze di Figaro). In the winter of 2024, Simone Young brought her to Sydney to sing Fricka in the concert production of Die Walküre.

Alexandra Ionis became a scholarship holder of the Richard Wagner Association in 2018. Her concert repertoire includes works by Pergolesi, Bach, Rossini, Verdi, Mahler, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Rachmaninoff.

Since 2023, Alexandra Ionis has been a member of the ensemble at Theater Bielefeld, where she has appeared as Anaïde in Leoncavallo's Zazà, Mrs. Quickly, Judith in Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, Giulietta & Voice of the Mother in The Tales of Hoffmann, Katerina (Magdalena) in Martinů's The Greek Passion, and the Queen of Hearts in Pierangelo Valtinoni's Alice in Wonderland.

In the upcoming 2025-26 season, she will make her role debut as Princess Eboli in Don Carlo at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari. At her parent theatre in Bielefeld she will be on stage for the first time as Mescalina in Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, the Old Lady in Bernstein's Candide, and Azucena in Il trovatore, among others.