Tenor Alex Boyer is known for his commanding voice and dramatic portrayals of the lyric and spinto tenor repertoire. For his 2025 Metropolitan Opera debut as Captain Ahab in Moby Dick, Bachtrack said “American tenor Alex Boyer made a strong company debut in the challenging role. With weighty and beautiful tone, Boyer convincingly conveyed the maniacal captain’s vehemence and anguish...”

Other 2025 engagements include covering Cavaradossi in Tosca, Florestan in Fidelio, Tchekalinsky in Pique Dame, and singing Third Jew in Salome at the Metropolitan Opera. He makes his role debut as Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the highly anticipated world premiere of Nicolas Benavides' opera Dolores with West Edge Opera, with subsequent performances scheduled with San Diego Opera and Opera Southwest.

The artist made several important role and house debuts in 2024, including Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Modesto Symphony, Puccini’s Messe di Gloria with the Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, Siegfried in Legend of the Ring with West Edge Opera, Remendado in Carmen and covering Riccardo in Un Ballo in Maschera at San Francisco Opera and his house debut with the Metropolitan Opera covering Ruggero in La Rondine.

In 2023 Alex appeared in several productions as Cavaradossi in Tosca (Opera San Jose, Livermore Valley Opera, Cinnabar Theater), and sang the Duke in Rigoletto with Opera in the Heights. The tenor also sang Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Idaho Falls Symphony and Tybalt in Romeo et Juliette with Opera San Jose.

In 2022 he was heard as Cassio in Otello with Livermore Valley Opera, and numerous concert performances including Festival Opera at Piedmont Center for the Arts, a snapshot concert with West Edge Opera, a Vienna Operetta concert at the Vallejo Performing Arts Center, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Quad City and Glacier Symphony Orchestras. Credits from 2019 – 2022 include Tichon in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová with West Edge Opera, Cavaradossi in Tosca with Hawaii Opera Theater, Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie's Moby Dick with Chicago Opera Theater, Dr. Richardson in West Edge Opera’s production of Breaking the Waves, Sam Polk in Susannah with Festival Opera, and Des Grieux in Berkeley Chamber Opera’s production of Manon Lescaut.

Other roles include Ruggero in La Rondine and the title role in Kashchey the Immortal with Island City Opera, the Abbot in Andrea Chénier with San Francisco Opera, Rodolfo in La bohème and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto with Island City Opera, Marcello in Leoncavallo's La bohème and Alwa in Lulu in the acclaimed West Edge Opera production, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Livermore Valley Opera, Lenski in Evgeny Onegin with Opera Idaho, and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor and Manrico in Il trovatore with Island City Opera. Alex also covered Pollione in Norma, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Ahab in Moby-Dick with the Dallas Opera.

He is an alumnus of the Merola Opera Program and was an Apprentice with the Santa Fe Opera. A New York native, Boyer holds degrees from Boston University and the Manhattan School of Music.