
Press headshot via The Metropolitan Opera (metopera.org)
Tenor (tenore di grazia)
A tenore di grazia of exceptional technical refinement and musical intelligence, Taylor Stayton emerged from the Academy of Vocal Arts to make his professional debut in 2010, but achieved immediate international prominence through a celebrated 2011 Metropolitan Opera performance as Percy in Anna Bolena that critics praised for its vocal security and dramatic conviction. Over the past decade, he has become the preeminent contemporary interpreter of the Rossini-Donizetti-Bellini repertoire, earning recognition across the world's leading opera houses—from Glyndebourne to the Met to Semperoper Dresden—for his crystalline timbre, virtuosic agility, and interpretive sophistication in roles such as Almaviva, Don Ramiro, and Elvino.
Metropolitan Opera debut as Percy in Donizetti's Anna Bolena, performing as a last-minute substitution to critical acclaim (2011)
Ohio State University (Bachelor of Music); Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia (graduated 2011)
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