Project Description
Israeli mezzo-soprano Maya Lahyani was praised for her “big, voluptuous sound” and “vigorous stage presence” (The San Francisco Chronicle). A 2010 grand finalist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the recipient of an Adler Fellowship at the San Francisco Opera, Lahyani is fast-becoming one of the most sought-after young singers today.
Ms. Lahyani’s 2016-2017 season begins as a soloist in a world premier collaboration with Alonzo King LINES Ballet. She then returns to Seattle Opera as Flora in La Traviata, and as Varvara (role debut) in Janáček’s Katya Kabanova. In the spring, she returns to The Metropolitan Opera as Flora in La Traviata, and Maddalena (cover) in Rigoletto. Later in the season, Lahyani joins the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra as a soloist in Mahler Symphony no. 2 under the baton of Christopher Warren-Green.
Ms. Lahyani sang over 50 performances at the Metropolitan Opera. Making her debut during the 2013-2014 season in Anthony Minghella’s production of Madam Butterfly as the first Israeli born to ever sing on their stage. Other roles with the company including Serving Woman in the highly acclaimed new production of Elektra by legendary director Patrice Chéreau, The Palestinian Woman in John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer, Rosette in Manon, Flora in La Traviata, Third Sprite in Rusalka, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Kätchen in Werther.
Career highlights including the title role of Carmen with Opera Las Vegas, PORTopera, and Wolf Trap Opera company, her Seattle Opera Debut as Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos, Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel With Opera Fairbanks, the Page in Salome with The Canadian Opera Company, Third Lady in The Magic Flute with The Dallas Opera, and Rigoletto in concert with The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel.
Lahyani is an alumna of the prestigious Adler Fellowship of the San Francisco Opera, where she made her debut in 2010 as Wowkle in La Fanciulla del West under conductor Nicola Luisotti. Other roles and productions with the company include Siegrune in Die Walküre, Sister Marta and The Duenna in Cyrano de Bergerac, the world premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’s Heart of a Soldier, Janáček’s The Makropulos Case, and Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia.