American mezzo-soprano Kayleigh Decker has a must-hear voice. A superb song interpreter, she was recently named one of Caramoor’s Schwab Vocal Rising Stars, and gave a highly acclaimed performance for the Citywide recital series at Carnegie Hall.

Decker’s operatic triumphs include recent debuts with Staatsoper Hamburg, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Welsh National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, Cincinnati Opera, and Opéra de Monte-Carlo in leading roles of operas by Rossini, Mozart and Handel. She has also been featured on the concert stage as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, Les Violons du Roi, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Orchestre de Paris.

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include house and role debuts as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni with Florentine Opera and Stuttgart State Opera, Belle in Philip Glass' La Belle et la Bête at Atlanta Opera, and Zephyrus in Die grosse Stille at Hamburg State Opera, as well as a return to Cincinnati Opera as Mercedes in Bizet's Carmen. On the concert platform, Decker will perform in a gala concert with Opera Edwardsville, a recital of Scandinavian song with Cincinnati Song Initiative, and will return to Copenhagen as the alto soloist in the Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Mogens Dahl.