Soprano Alexa Jarvis is a full-time member of the GRAMMY Award Winning Metropolitan Opera Chorus in New York City. Outside of the Met’s schedule she enjoys performing a diverse scope of repertoire in NYC and around the country.
In 2025, Alexa makes her Carnegie Hall Solo debut performing the iconic Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) by Richard Strauss, with the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra. Other recent highlights include singing the role of Mrs. Charlton in the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD Broadcast of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzer with the New York City Ballet, and Seattle Symphony’s Pride Pops series with musician and drag queen Thorgy Thor. She especially enjoyed performing in Kevin Newbury’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. The Bernstein family chose this production to be reprised for a PBS special commemorating the Bernstein Centennial.
Alexa is proud of her Seattle roots and loves any opportunity to return to the Pacific Northwest to sing. She has performed with Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Vashon Opera and Pacific Northwest Opera. She can be heard on several video-game/movie soundtracks recorded in Seattle, including The Hobbit, Diablo, Halo and The Industrial Musicals Movie and GRAMMY-nominated children’s musical fable The Shoe Bird.
Alexa has earned accolades in the Franco Viñas Opera Competition in Barcelona, the Metropolitan Opera Competition, the International Gerda Lissner Competition, Opera Index, Giulio Gari Foundation, Julian Autrey Song Foundation and Palm Springs Opera Competition.
Alexa trained in Chicago at DePaul School of Music and New York City’s Mannes at The New School. She lives in NYC with her husband and three children.