Hayley
Fox

Hayley Fox
(She/Her)  

Hayley Fox is a lyric soprano based in Chicago, IL. She recently covered Mimi in La Bohème at Opera Company of Middlebury, Vermont, as well as sang Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. She covered the title role in Cendrillon by Massenet (in English translation) at Cedar Rapids Opera this past winter. Hayley has appeared with Wolf Trap, the Glimmerglass Festival, Cincinnati Opera, and will sing with the Lyric Opera of Chicago this fall. 

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Carmina Burana
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Lyric Opera of Chicago
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Hayley Fox

Hayley Fox is a consummate artist committed to communicating through vocal music in a dramatic context as a way to connect to the pulse of our shared humanity and achieve catharsis between audiences. Hayley’s upcoming engagements include singing the title role in Cendrillon with Chicago City Opera, and singing Mimi in La bohème with White Rose Classical Producitions this spring. 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 joined Opera Company of Middlebury, Vermont this past summer, making her debut as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi. She covered Mimi in their mainstage performance of La Bohème. She has also 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 Chicago Opera Theater. 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 this 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 St. Clement’s Catholic Church in Lincoln Park.

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Middlebury, Vermont

Young Artist

2025 - 2025
Covered Mimi in La bohème and sang Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi.
Cedar Rapids, IA

Young Artist

2025 - 2025
Covered Cendrillon in Massenet's Cendrillon in english.
Cooperstown, NY

Young Artist

2023 - 2023
Sang in the chorus and covered Armida in Rinaldo.

Wolf Trap Opera

2022 - 2022
Vienna, VA

2022 - 2022
Wolf Trap Studio Artist singing Mrs. Hayes in Susannah and in the chorus of Der Freischütz

Cincinnati Opera

2017 - 2023
Cincinnati, OH

Chorus

2017 - 2023
Sang as a core chorus member for three years then came back as a supplemental member in 2023

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Opera