Hailed by OPERA NEWS for her "warm and effortless" singing and widely recognized for her vibrant interpretations, American lyric soprano Hailey Clark has made her mark in Europe and North America. A winner of the Austrian Music Theater Prize for Best Female in a Leading Role for her European debut at the Salzburger Landestheater, she continues to garner praise on the international stage for her shimmering, signature portrayals of Mozart heroines, and her versatility in operatic and concert repertoire spanning nearly three centuries.
Clark finished the 2022/23 season with her much anticipated Bayreuther Festspiele debut as Freia in Das Rheingold. The upcoming 2023/24 season includes debuts of Richard Strauss' Vier Lezte Lieder with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Turkey, a role debut of Nedda in Pagliacci with Austin Opera. She is an active recitalist and adds spring performance dates to her calendar in Austria - please check back for updates. In addition to her classical calendar, Clark is a singer-songwriter and recording artist, and releases her debut single "Unraveled" available for streaming and download December 2023, and her debut EP "Sad Girl Songs" in February 2024, recorded at Ballroom Studios in Dresden, Germany. She will also collaborate on a family EP with other German singer-songwriters in 2024, entitled "Für dich/For You." A noted masterclass clinician, voice teacher, young artist advocate and career consultant, Hailey Clark joins the faculty this summer at Music in the Alps summer festival in Bad Gastein, Austria in August 2024.
Recent appearances have included Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus with Central City Opera, Gerhilde in Die Walküre with the Dresdner Philharmonie, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Palm Beach Opera, a return to her breakout role of Rachel in La Juive at the Staatsoper Hannover, and a cover of the same role in a new production at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, and she has received International acclaim and features from OPERNWELT, Das Opernglas, Oper! Magazin, Opera News, Bayerische Rundfunk, Opera Today, The Huffington Post, The Financial Times, and other International Opera publications.