
French Songs and Operatic Fancies
Ongar Music Club
16/10
Recital
ABOUT
With "a voice of captivating beauty" (John Dunston), Madeline is an up-and-coming soprano with an expanding list of operatic roles and concert repertoire.
Since beginning her career in 2022, she has performed with Hurn Court Opera (cover Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale), Opera Holland Park (soprano chorus in Bizet's Carmen), Opera South (Gontran in Chabrier's Une Education Manquee) as well as in concerts with the London Contemporary Orchestra, Celebrate Voice Festival, and the Roman River Festival.
2023 will see three company debuts with Oracle Productions, Bampton Classical Opera, and the Cumbria Opera Festival. She will also be returning to Opera Holland Park in the Summer with Charles Court Opera and their production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore.
In 2021 she won the title of Essex Young Musician of the Year, in 2022 the Roger Higgins Prize at the Hurn Court Opera Competition, and whilst training won the Cameron Smith French Song Prize.

Photography by Mark Senior
"... the type of mature voice I thought was a thing of the past..." Michael Gray
"..immaculate and sensitive singing..." Julia Bentham
"Here was singing of captivating beauty, the text visible in her facial expressions and every syllable clearly heard in her purity of tone and faultless sense of pitch and articulation." John Dunston