LEILA ALEXANDER 

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Leila Alexander is an interdisciplinary artist working across opera, performance, moving image and immersive technologies. Her practice is conceptually driven and psychologically focused, exploring embodiment, trauma and voice through hybrid forms that merge classical vocal technique, choreography and digital environments.
 

She created LUCIA (2021–25), an immersive VR opera premiered through the UKRI Immersive Opera programme, integrating operatic composition with immersive technology and performance, realised in collaboration with composer Toby Young and Radical Realities' Christian Venables and Kuba Jekiel. 
 

Alongside her artistic practice, Leila is a classically trained soprano and dancer. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (including the Royal Opera House coaching programme), the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Programme. She has performed internationally at venues including Wigmore Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and Tbilisi Opera House, and has appeared as a performance artist at the Venice Biennale and in major London galleries. She was also the lead actress in the New Zealand feature film Stars in Her Eyes.
 

Leila’s background spans law, producing and cultural leadership. A qualified commercial litigator, she has served as Company Manager and Producer of Pegasus Opera Company and its affiliated talent agency, and is currently Artistic Associate of the Shakespeare in Music Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon. She has spoken at Opera America’s A Global Dialogue in Opera and consulted to Operabase.

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