Soprano Kaileigh Riess is a dynamic performer committed to bringing fierce authenticity, lyrical beauty, and vivid expressivity to operatic and crossover repertoire alike. Recent highlights include house and role debuts at The Glimmerglass Festival (Dot/Marie cover in Sunday in the Park with George and Bard in The Odyssey) and Opera in the Pines (Rosie in The Barber of the Cape), as well as two appearances in Beth Morrison Projects' PROTOTYPE Festival (What to Wear and BMP: Songbook) and a cabaret performance with Seaglass Theatre Company (And the Beat Goes On).

This spring, Kaileigh appears in the title role of Kamala Sankaram's immersive Singing Cabinet of Mathilde LeBeau with Opera on Tap, presented at the Every Woman Biennial in New York City. She returns to the Lotte Lenya Competition, where she has competed three times before and received the Lys Symonette Award for Opera, to compete in this year's semifinals. She then returns to Central City Opera for their City of Dreams Gala before heading back to Glimmerglass this summer to perform Ms. Lightfoot and cover Mary Johnson in Gregory Spears' Fellow Travelers.

Other favorite stage credits include Nannetta (Falstaff), Violetta (La traviata), Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Anne Trulove (The Rake's Progress), Contessa Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Laurie (The Tender Land), and Blanche (Dialogues of the Carmelites).

Kaileigh completed her education at Northwestern University, the University of Southern California, and the BU Opera Institute and has since worked with Boston Lyric Opera, Virginia Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Pacific Northwest Opera, Opera in the Pines, Opera on Tap, Seaglass Theatre Company, Beth Morrison Projects, and the Boston Pops. On the competition circuit, she has received distinction from the Lotte Lenya Competition, the Jensen Competition, the American Traditions Competition, Career Bridges, and the Laffont Competition.

Kaileigh is based in New York City, works frequently in her native Boston, is a member of AGMA, and is represented by Encompass Arts.