Madeleine Shaw
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Samling Scholar Madeleine Shaw studied at the RSAMD and the National Opera Studio supported by English National Opera. Madeleine was on the Young Singers Programme at English National Opera from 2006 to 2009.
Solo performances include Elgar Sea Pictures and Dream of Gerontius, Copland In the Beginning, Bach B Minor Mass, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music at the Edinburgh International Festival, Bach Christmas Oratorio and Tavener Lamentation for Jerusalem in Jerusalem, Ramalah, Abu Gosh and Bethlehem. She also sung in Duruflé Requiem and Haydn Nelson Mass and in an opera gala with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Mozart Requiem in Spain (John Eliot Gardiner), Debussy La Demoiselle Élue with BBC National Orchestra of Wales (Thierry Fisher), Duruflé Requiem at the Sage, Gateshead, Verdi Requiem in Halifax, Messiah in Norway (Sandefjord Kammerchor), Spain (Oviedo Cathedral), at Bridgewater Hall and at the Royal Festival Hall and The Three Cornered Hat with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
With ENO she has performed Annina Der Rosenkavalier, Beggar Woman Death in Venice, Second Lady The Magic Flute, Maddalena Rigoletto, Kate Pinkerton Madama Butterfly, Tessa (cover) The Gondoliers, Flora (cover) La Traviata, Annio (cover) La Clemenza di Tito, Lola (cover) Cavalleria Rusticana and in performances of songs by Kurt Weill and Samuel Barber at The Young Vic. Madeleine made her Royal Opera House debut at Covent Garden in 2010 as Forester’s Wife/Owl The Cunning Little Vixen.
Her operatic roles with Opera East Productions include Female Chorus The Rape of Lucretia, Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw, Mrs Herring Albert Herring and The Grand Duchess of Monteblanco A Dinner Engagement. At RSAMD her roles included Nerone L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Meg Page Falstaff, Marcellina Le Nozze di Figaro and Un Pâtre L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. She has also performed the role of Juno, La Calisto and Medea, Giasone with The Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn and Cretan Woman in Idomeneo at the Salzburg Spring Festival, in Berlin and Lucerne with Sir Simon Rattle, as well as Beggar Woman Death in Venice with La Monnaie and La Scala and 1st Witch in After Dido, a joint venture by ENO/The Young Vic and Wellgunde Götterdämmerung with the Hallé Orchestra and Sir Mark Elder. Recent engagements include Adonella in Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini for Opera Holland Park, Tippett A Child of our Time at The Sage (Zehetmair), Verdi Requiem at Gloucester Cathedral, Messiah in Oviedo, St Matthew Passion in Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds, Emilia Otello with the BBC Philharmonic (Noseda) and Dream of Gerontius at Southwark Cathedral.
Engagements in 2011/2012 include Verdi Requiem at Ely Cathedral, Messiah in Halifax, Annina Der Rosenkavalier for ENO and Siegrune Die Walküre for Opera North. Subsequent engagements include Rossweise Die Walküre at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
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