Photo: Harriet Wooltorton
Madeleine Holmes
Languages (fluent):
English, Italian, German, French
Experience
Opera
Elisetta
Il Matrimonio Segreto (Cimarosa)
Scheggino Opera
2018
Mimi
La Boheme (Puccini)
The Black Cat Opera Company
2017
Alice Ford
Falstaff (Verdi)
Italian Opera Summer School , Puglia
2016
Contessa Almaviva
Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Italian Opera Summer School, Puglia
2016
Ginevra
Ariodante (Handel)
Italian Opera Summer School, Puglia
2016
Romilda
Xerxes (Handel)
Hampstead Garden Opera, cond. Richard Hetherington
2015
Cio-Cio San
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
Lambeth Orchestra, cond. Christopher Fifield
2014
Giorgetta
Il tabarro (Puccini)
Co-Opera Co, cond. Martin Handley
2013
Strekoza
Strekoza i Muravei (Brian Hosefros)
Tete a Tete / Arcola
2013
Dido
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
Constanza Chorus / St Sepulchre, London
2012
Musetta
La Boheme (Puccini)
Park Opera
2010
Eve
The Diaries of Adam and Eve (David Josiah Moore)
Arcola Theatre
2010
Tatyana
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Hampstead Garden Opera
2008
Naiad
Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss, R)
Windsor Festival
2007
Despina
Cosi fan Tutte (Mozart)
Oxford Touring Opera
2007
Operetta/G&S
Soprano soloist
Excerpts from various operettas (Strauss, J, and others)
Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
2013
Phyllis
Iolanthe (Gilbert & Sullivan)
WEOS
2010
Euridice
Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach)
WEOS
2009
Yum-Yum
The Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan)
WEOS
2007
Musical Theatre
Beggar Woman (Lucy Barker)
Sweeney Todd (Sondheim)
Huddersfield Town Hall
2018
Mrs Lovett
Sweeney Todd (Sondheim)
Dartington International Festival,
2017
Art Song
Soloist
Four Burns Songs (Britten)
The Red House, Aldeburgh
2020
Soloist
Fiançailles pour Rire (Poulenc)
The Red House, Aldeburgh
2020
Soloist
Chansons Françaises (Britten)
The Red House, Aldeburgh
2020
Chorus
Chorus
The Pilgrim's Progress (Vaughan Williams)
Philharmonia Voices, cond. Richard Hickox
2008
Chorus
Death in Venice (Britten)
Philharmonia Voices, cond. Richard Hickox / QEH
2008
Oratorio/Concerts
Soprano soloist
Mirror of Perfection (Richard Blackford)
Gravesend Choral Society
2019
Soprano soloist
Mass of the Children (Rutter)
Gravesend Choral Society
2019
Soprano soloist
Requiem (Verdi)
St Etheldreda's Church, London
2018
Soprano soloist
Nelson Mass (Haydn)
St Katherine Cree, London
2018
Soprano soloist
Dixit Dominus (Handel)
Uxbridge Choral Society
2018
Soprano soloist
Exsultate, Jubilate (Mozart)
Concordium, Church of the Holy Spirit, London
2018
Excerpts: Violetta, La Traviata; Antonia, Hoffmann
La Traviata (Verdi)
St Marylebone Festival
2018
Soprano soloist
Requiem (Mozart)
St Martin-in-the-Fields
2017
Soprano soloist
Carmina Burana (Carl Orff)
St John's, Waterloo
2017
Soprano soloist
My Dearest Hedgehog: Strauss and Pauline (Strauss, R; dramaturgy by Henrietta Bredin)
Collaboration with Morley College
2015
Soprano soloist
A Pretence of Wit (Ed Nesbit)
ROH Clore / New Dots Symposium
2014
Soprano soloist
The Creation (Haydn)
St John's Waterloo
2014
Soprano soloist
Rejoice in the Lamb & Requiem (Britten & Howard Goodall)
Derby Choral Union
2013
Soprano soloist
'Nelson' Mass & Requiem (Haydn & Faure)
Peterborough Cathedral
2011
Soprano soloist
Coronation Mass (Mozart)
Southbank Sinfonia / Anghiari Festival
2011
Soprano Soloist
Life Lessens (Julian Philips)
Wigmore Hall and Bloomsbury Festival
2008
Soprano soloist
Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms)
Harpenden Choral Society
Soprano soloist
Fields of Sorrow (Harrison Birtwhistle)
Aldeburgh Festival / Ades
Soprano soloist
St John Passion (Bach)
St George's Cathedral
2016
Jazz
Soloist
Sidney Bechet Tribute (Various)
London Dance Orchestra / Marylebone Festival
2019
Session Work
Soprano - ensemble
Various - deputy soprano (Various)
BBC Singers
Covered Covered & Performed Scenes Premiere of New Work Concert COVID-cancelled
Awards
Finzi Trust Travel Scholarship (2011)
Competitions
Finalist, Chelsea Schubert Competition (2010)
Education
Crear Scholar
Crear French Opera Course with Malcolm Martineau
2017
BA Joint Hons, French and Italian (2:1)
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
PGCE, Secondary Education (Music)
Institute of Education, University of London
The Knack
English National Opera