Alexander Lewis is an English-Australian operatic tenor and musical theatre actor who has performed in Australia, the UK, the US, and Germany. He sang in the world premiere of Matthew Aucoin's opera Crossing.
Early life
Lewis spent the early years of his life in Hampstead, London, initially observing his opera-singer parents before eventually joining the St Albans Cathedral Choir at the age of seven. Lewis comes from a musical family. His father, the baritone Michael Lewis, is an opera singer and concert performer and his mother Patricia Price is a mezzo-soprano from Wales and the retired Head of Vocal Studies and Opera at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. His older brother, Ben Lewis, is known for his portrayals of The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies and The Phantom of the Opera.
Lewis's parents used their industry contacts to fund-raise for Warrawee Primary School in Sydney where both Alexander and Ben attended. Richard Bonynge was generally the conductor and the performers were whoever was available at the time from the Australian Opera. The concerts continue to this day and a prize named after Lewis's parents is awarded to one of the school's music students.
Career
After the family moved back to Australia, Lewis attended Newington College in Sydney where he studied music and drama whilst playing sport. After high school, Lewis successfully applied to study at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) with brother Ben. Both graduated from the Music Theatre course in 2004. and Alexander was awarded the Lesley Anderson Fellowship as most outstanding student of that year.
