Biography

Hayley Meth is an American mezzo-soprano originally from New York. She is currently pursuing her second year of postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where she studies under the tutelage of Samantha Malk.

At Guildhall, she has appeared in numerous performances, including selections from Strauss and Schoenberg in the Songs at Six recital series, and operatic scenes in which she has performed the title role in Bizet’s Carmen, as well as roles in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Berlioz’s Béatrice et Benedict, and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. She also covered the role of Servia in Respighi’s Lucrezia with the Guildhall Opera Course.

In 2023, she was selected as a Voice Fellow at Opernfest Prague, where she performed with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra in the historic Smetana Hall. In March 2025, she was named a semifinalist in the Josep Palet International Singing Competition in Martorell, Spain.

Recent engagements include performances as Suor Dolcina in Puccini’s Suor Angelica with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano, presented as part of both the Edinburgh International Festival and the BBC Proms in August 2025, The Alto 2 Soloist (Maria Aegyptiaca) in Mahler’s 8th Symphony with the Bach Choir and the Philharmonia Orchestra at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and as Maria Stuart for Amy Beach’s Eilend Wolken with the Royal Holloway Symphony Orchestra.

This summer she will be an emerging artist at the Institute for Young Dramatic Voices and the American Wagner Project before starting on the Opera Course at the Guildhall school in September.

Previous operatic roles include Annio (cover) in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, Mrs. Hildebrand and Mrs. Olsen (cover) in Weill’s Street Scene, Dritte Knabe in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with Palisades Opera, and Ludgarde in Schubert’s La croisade des dames with Opera McGill Horizons.