Taylor Stayton

Career Trajectory

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.