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 was filled with company and role debuts; Volpino in Haydn's Lo Speziale with Bampton Classical Opera, Johanna in the original melodrama of Sweeney Todd with Opera della Luna, Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni with Cumbria Opera Group, and the role of Rose Maybud in Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore with Oracle Productions at Wilton's Music Hall - for which she was nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Opera Performance. Due to their popularity, in 2024 both Lo Speziale and Sweeney Todd were revived, with Madeline reprising her role. Une Education Manquee will also be revived in a concert version late 2024.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.
"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
"The performance of the night comes from ideally poised Madeline Robinson as the young female lead. In addition to a perfectly placed soprano voice that goes from sweetness to steel, she has delicious comic timing. Playing initially demure Rose Maybud, she blooms." - The Stage
"Soaring above the rest of the cast, both vocally and morally, soprano Madeline Robinson in the role of Virginia delivered purity both of tone and character, with acting ability the equal of her remarkable vocal talents." - Planet Hugill
