FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Alexandra Sanfilippo is a soprano from Los Angeles, California. Her former opera credits include Dew Fairy and Sandman in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, a Slave Girl in Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, Drusilla in Monteverdi’s L’incornazione di Poppea, a spirit in Massenet’s Cendrillon, and Augusta’s friend Mary in Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe. For three years in a row, Alexandra was featured as a guest artist, performing opera arias and duets at the “Taste of Italy” fundraiser for the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles and has also had the privilege of performing in the Valley Performing Arts Center for its opening gala in the spring of 2011. She holds both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from California State University, Northridge.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I saw The Phantom of the Opera for the first time when I was 8 years old. It was when I realized that I wanted to be a singer and performer. I was obsessed the music was all I could think about and I was always pretending to be Christine. Davis Gaines played the role of the Phantom the first few times I saw the show and to this day he is still my favorite (Ive seen it 8 or 9 times with many different Phantoms.) He became such an inspiration to me that I wrote and sent him a couple letters without any help (they are full of sooo many spelling errors=/) after seeing it and asked him to send me autograph pictures for my Phantom collection and I even became a member of his fan club=). 20+ years later, the last year of my undergrad at CSUN, I got to perform at the VPAC opening with some of the other voice majors. I had no idea that Davis was also going to be performing that night but when I found out just hours before the performance, I was determined to find him so that I could tell him my crazy story and take a picture with him backstage. Even crazier is that he told me that he knew my voice teacher Diane Ketchie; they were in the show together in San Francisco I had no idea! I now have this picture in my Phantom scrapbook along with every ticket, program, a copy of one of the letters that I sent him when I was little, the letter that he wrote in response to mine, his newsletters and his autograph pictures. Meeting him was so amazing and who knows, maybe one day Ill be lucky enough to sing with him How cool would that be?!:D
- What types of customers have you worked with?
children as young as 5 to adults. Beginners to advanced. Also people who just want to learn or brush up on their music theory skills.