Alexandra Carter is half Welsh and half Indian; she was born in Hitchin, grew up in North America and came back to school in Wales, before an MA in French and Italian at Clare College, Cambridge University.

In Toulouse, she busked opera arias to support herself. After a postgraduate diploma from Trinity College of Music, she lived in Bremen, Germany, performing lieder with pianist Claudia Birkholz.

Alexandra won an entrance scholarship to study with Noelle Barker at the Royal Academy of Music, and has since worked with many of the leading directors and conductors in the country, and in the Chorus of the Royal Opera House.

Venues have varied from those busking days in Rue St Rome, Toulouse, to theatres and concert halls, to a converted slaughterhouse, art galleries, and castles in Germany, the 17thC Mauritshuis in Holland, and the Handel House Museum in London, and Sandringham House.

Alex has performed at weddings and events all over the UK and the strangest place she has sung to date is on top of a haystack, to a field of cows... No, really!

Alexandra has sung the roles of Susanna (Figaro) for Opera Southeast, Valencienne (Merry Widow) for First Act Opera, Adele, (Fledermaus) for First Act Opera, Adina, (L'elisir d'amore,) Susanna, and Barbarina, (Figaro,) for Pavilion Opera, Ninetta (La Finta Semplice) for Opera Piccola, Bremen, Trio (Trouble in Tahiti) and Dalila (Handel's Samson) for Guildford Opera, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) for London Opera Players,St John Passion with Bournemouth Bach Choir, and Pergolesi Stabat Mater, Vivaldi Gloria and Haydn Missa Brevis for Chepstow Choral Society, Haydn Nelson Mass for Aldworth Philharmonic Orchestra. Alexandra has also covered the roles of Nadine, (Der Stein der Weisen,) and Aminta (Strauss: Die Schweigsame Frau) and Tamiri in Il Re Pastore for Garsington Opera.