Israeli born Mezzo Soprano, Maya Lahyani has been singing at the top opera houses throughout the U.S for the past decade. She was the first Israeli born to ever sing at The Metropolitan Opera, where she sang over 90 performances including; Flora in La Traviata, Rosette in Manon, Dorothée in Cendrillon, Wood Nymph in Rusalka, Grimgerde in Die Walküre, 2nd Maid in Elektra, and Kate Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly. 

Lahyani sang the title role in Bizet’s Carmen with Minnesota Opera, Arizona Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Naples, Opera Maine, Opera Las Vegas and Wolf Trap Opera. 

She appeared as Grimgerde in Wagner’s Die Walküre with The Atlanta Opera and Detroit Opera. With Seattle Opera she sang Varvara in Janáček’s Katya Kabanova, Flora in La Traviata, and Dryad in Ariadne auf Naxos. She appeared as Maddalena in Rigoletto at the Berkshire Opera Festival, Hansel in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel with Opera Fairbanks, the Page in Salome with Canadian Opera Company, and Third Lady in The Magic Flute with The Dallas Opera. 

With the Israeli Opera, Lahyani appeared at Charlotte in Werther, Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking, and Maddalena in Rigoletto. 

Lahyani is an alumna of the prestigious Adler Fellowship of the San Francisco Opera, where she appeared as Wowkle in La Fanciulla del West, Siegrune in Die Walküre, Sister Marta and The Duenna in Cyrano de Bergerac, the world premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’s Heart of a Soldier, Janáček's The Makropulos Case, Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia, and the title role of Carmen.

In Concerts she appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Jerusalem Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, and the New Jersey Symphony.