Paraguayan soprano Alejandra Meza, a graduate of the Bruno Maderna Conservatory in Cesena, Italy, and currently based in Rome, will give a free lyric singing masterclass in the Salón de Honor of the Ateneo Paraguayo (Nuestra Señora de la Asunción 820, corner of Humaitá) on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free.
Meza earned her degree in Music with an emphasis in Singing from the National University of Asunción (FADA-UNA) in 2019, under the guidance of American soprano Jacqueline Cohen. She later completed a Master's in Lyric Singing at the Bruno Maderna Conservatory, under the tutelage of Maestra Alda Caiello. She is currently deepening her theoretical research in a Second-Level Master's in History and Form of Musical Civilization at the Guglielmo Marconi University in Rome.
In 2022, she made her debut as a soloist in Germany during the Bach Festival Leipzig, alongside the Bach Collegium of Asunción, and performed at the Otto-Braun Saal in Berlin with the Bach Society of Paraguay, under the direction of conductor Diego Sánchez Haase. She has performed leading roles in world premieres, such as Pancha in the opera Pancha y Elisa by Sánchez Haase, and the central roles in Universo - Oceano by Girolamo Deraco, with the Symphony Orchestra of the Congress of Paraguay (OSIC) at the Teatro Municipal Ignacio A. Pane.
Her repertoire includes classical and contemporary roles on stages in Italy (Puccini Chamber Opera Festival in Lucca and the Basilica of Sant'Eustachio in Rome), Germany, Norway, Malta, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile. Highlights include the character Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with the National Symphony Orchestra (OSN), and her debut at the SODRE Theater in Uruguay in the zarzuela La del Manojo de Rosas by Sorozábal.