Lyric Coloratura Soprano Hailey West is a recent Master’s graduate from the Royal Academy of Music where she studied with Raymond Connell and Joseph Middleton. She completed her bachelor’s degree at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire where she studied with Maureen Brathwaite.
Her opera engagements include First Boy in Die Zauberflöte and Chorus in Hänsel und Gretel with Royal Academy Opera and at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, La Fée in Cendrillon and Adelaide in The Enchanted Pig. In opera scenes she performed Nannetta in Falstaff, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel and Maria Bertram in Mansfield Park.
Alongside her opera engagements, Hailey won the Stuart Cameron Smith American Song Prize (RBC) in 2022, and was a finalist in The Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition in 2024. She was recently awarded the Dick Maidment and Peggy Cooper Award from Help Musicians.
