Kayla Oderah is an emerging soprano hailing from Louisville, Kentucky. Last season, Oderah made her Opera Memphis debut as Musetta in La Bohème, as well as Linfea in La Calisto. As a Handorf Company Artist, she also debuted a workshop performance of A.E. Reverie by Kamala Sankaram in partnership with Chautauqua Opera and Opera Memphis. In 2023, Oderah sang as a Dayton Opera Artist-in-Residence where she performed the role of Woglinde in Das Rheingold. She made her Dayton Philharmonic debut performing as the soprano soloist in the Vaughan Williams’ Pastoral Symphony as well as the Mozart Missa Brevis in C Major, K259. Oderah made her professional debut in 2022 performing the role of Girlfriend 2 in Blue with Toledo Opera as well as Despina in Così fan Tutte with Finger Lakes Opera as a Tomita Young Artist. She also sang as a young artist with Opera Ithaca. There, Oderah performed the role of Zegner Daughter Littler in Proving Up and Anna in Nabucco. Oderah returned to Ithaca in the Spring of 2023 to perform the role of Cupid in Orpheus in the Underworld. Oderah has trained at the University of Michigan (M.M.), the Aspen Music Festival as a studio artist, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.M).
