Her recent engagements include singing Elle in La Voix Humaine at Roosevelt University in a self-directed performance with collaborators Dana Brown and Amy Hutchison. She covered Cendrillon at Cedar Rapids Opera in the winter of 2025. Hayley will join Opera Company of Middlebury, Vermont this summer, making her debut as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. She will also cover Mimi in their mainstage performance of La Boheme. This past fall, she covered the title role of in Leonora by Ferdinando Paër in the North American premiere with Chicago Opera Theater.

Hayley made her professional recital debut at the Glessner House with Jonathan Gmeinder this season, presenting a program of Barber’s Hermit songs as part of their Salon Series. She also has sung song repertoire as part of CAIC’s Songs at Six series in collaboration with Chicago College of the Performing arts.

As a champion of modern American opera, she premiered the role of Emily in The Weight of Light by Gillian Ray Perry to critical praise in the spring of 2024, and sang The Girl in the world premiere of Carlos Carrillo’s and Stephanie Fleischmann’s Remedios Varios Para las Aflicciones del Cuerpo y el Espíritu this spring, also with COT. Her other noteworthy credits include singing Morgaine in Opera Fusion: New Works workshop of Edmond Dede’s recently rediscovered Morgaine, co-produced by Opera Lafayette and Opera Creole. She covered Praskovya Ospipovna/Mother./Repectable Lady in Chicago Opera Theater’s production of Shostakovich’s The Nose under the baton of Lidiya Yankovskaya, while also singing in the chorus as Attendant/Traveller 3.

Equally comfortable in early repertoire as well as modern, she recently covered Armida in Handel’s Rinaldo while at the Glimmerglass Festival and sang Colette in Le Devin du Village by Jean Jacques Rousseau with the Chicago College of the Performing Arts Baroque Ensemble this past October. She was seen as Micaëla with in an abridged version of Bizet’s Carmen, which she also assistant directed at CCPA in 2024. Other credits include Susannah (Miss Hayes) as a Wolf Trap Opera Studio Artist in 2022, and in Galieo Galilei (Sagredo/Marie/Eos) with CCM Opera. Hayley is from Pennsylvania, and studied in Cincinnati, OH at the Univesity of Cincinnati under William Mcgraw, and Thomas Baresel.

Hayley is an avid collaborator and chorister. Her concert repertoire includes Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Faure’s Requiem, Schubert’s Mass in G, Handel’s Messiah, and Bach’s St. John’s Passion. She has sung with Cincinnati Opera’s Chorus for multiple seasons and will join the roster of supplemental choristers at the Lyric Opera of Chicago next season. She is a member of AGMA. Hayley has sung with the Cathedral Choir of St. James, Chicago, Collegium Cincinnati, the Bach Ensemble of Saint Thomas, and is currently a section leader at Northminister Presbyterian Church in Evanston.