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 Welsh National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dallas Opera, and Cincinnati Opera in leading roles of operas by Rossini, Mozart and Handel. She has also been featured on the concert stage as a soloist with San Francisco Symphony, Les Violons du Roi, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Orchestre de Paris.

In 2024/25, Decker returns to Lyric Opera Chicago in her professional debut as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, makes her house and role debut for Opera de Monte Carlo and covers Cherubino in her house debut for The Metropolitan Opera. On the concert platform, Decker performs Handel Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Chicago Apollo Chorus, and Seattle Symphony. She also sings Mahler 8 with the Grant Park Music Festival, Mahler 2 with the Colburn Orchestra, and Smyth Mass in D at the National Cathedral with the Baltimore Symphony.