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Kate Robson

Assistant Artist Manager

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Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt

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About Madison

New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa is a recent graduate of the prestigious opera course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Madison has made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera as First Siren (Rinaldo) and was selected as a 2020/2021 Jerwood Young Artist for the Festival. She was named a Samling Artist in 2020 and is a current Britten-Pears Young Artist, as well as a former Dame Malvina Major Emerging Young Artist with New Zealand Opera, where she made her debut as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte).

Madison has performed nationally and internationally with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and with the London Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall. Competition highlights include being the first prize winner of the Dame Malvina Major Arias in Christchurch and Wellington, as well as being awarded the first prize in the Napier Aria, Tauranga competitions and receiving 2nd prize in the New Zealand Aria Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the London Bach Singing competition and the International Handel Singing Competition and a finalist in the 2016 Lexus Song Quest, where she was selected as the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation “Most Promising Singer”.

Recent highlights for Madison have seen her make several debuts, including festival debuts at the Salzburg and Whitsun Festivals as Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Amour (Orphée et Eurydice) with Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion at the Pulsations Festival in Bordeaux, as well as a house and role debut as the title role in Dido and Aeneas for the Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal Bath. In addition, she recently returned to New Zealand Opera in the role of Amor in their production of (m)Orpheus.

She acknowledges the ongoing support of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major Foundations.

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Season Highlights

Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
NZ Opera (Auckland and Wellington)
Gluck (m)Oprheus (Amor) Marc Taddei (Conductor)
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
Opéra de Monte-Carlo
Verdi Don Carlo (Voce dal Cielo) Massimo Zanetti (Conductor) Davide Livermore (Director)
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Opéra national du Rhin
Rolli Polifemo (Galatea) Emmanuelle Haïm (Conductor) Bruno Ravella (Director)

Video

Audio

  • Madison Nonoa sings Debussy 'C'est l'extase langoureuse'
  • Madison Nonoa sings Britten's 'The Last Rose of Summer' with Malcolm Martineau
    Credit: BBC Radio 3
  • Madison Nonoa sings Schubert's 'Im Fruhling'

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Selected Repertoire

BelliniI Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta)
BrittenA Midsummer Nights Dream (Tytania)
CavalliLa Calisto (Nymph)
DonizettiLa Fille du Régiment (Marie)
HandelAcis & Galatea (Galatea)   •   Oreste (Ifigenia)   •   Rinaldo (Almirena)   •   Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra, arias only)   •   Alcina (Morgana, arias only)   •   Semele (Title role, arias only)
MonteverdiLamento della Ninfa (Soprano)   •   Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Narrator, Clorinda)
MozartLe Nozze di Figaro (Susanna)   •   The Magic Flute (Papagena)   •   Cosi fan tutte (Despina)   •   Don Giovanni (Zerlina)
PurcellThe Fairy Queen (Woman 1)
StraussDer Rosenkavalier (Sophie)

Press

  • Polifemo (Porpora)

    Opera du Rhin
    Feb 2024

    • Madison Nonoa séduit en Galatée toute de charme et de féminité. [translated] Madison Nonoa seduces as Galatea, full of charm and femininity.

    • La soprano néo-zélandaise Madison Nonoa prête son timbre charnu et agile à Galatea. [translated] New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa lends her fleshy and agile tone to Galatea.

    • [...] la Galatea fruitée et frémissante de sensibilité dessinée par Madison Nonoa [translated] the fruity Galatea quivering with sensitivity designed by Madison Nonoa

    • Révélation récente dans son pays d’origine, fortement soutenue par Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, la Néo-zélandaise Madison Nonoa dispose de belles aptitudes à la vocalise, d'un aigu lumineux et d’un sens du legato qui font de l’air de Galatea « Smanie d’affanno » un des grands moments de la soirée. [translated] A recent revelation in her country of origin, strongly supported by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa , the New Zealander Madison Nonoa has great vocal skills, a luminous high note and a sense of legato which make the air of Galatea “ Smania d’affanno ” one of the great moments of the evening.

    • Elle possède un beau timbre et fait preuve d’une grande sensibilité en incarnant ici une Galatée particulièrement charmante" [translated] She has a beautiful timbre and shows great sensitivity in playing a particularly charming Galatea.

    • La jeune soprano néo-zélandaise Madison Nonoa est une révélation en Galatée, et son air de déploration “Smanie d’affanno” étreint les gorges tout autant que le fameux “Alto Giove”, avec sa voix toute de fraîcheur et d’agilité. [translated] The young New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa is a revelation as Galatea, and her lamenting aria, "Smanie d'affanno", is as breathtaking as the famous "Alto Giove", with her fresh, agile voice.

    • La soprano néozélandaise Madison Nonoa crève l’écran ou la scène, si l’on veut. Beauté du timbre, facilité dans les aigus et les ornementations, tempérament de feu et sens du jeu, la jeune femme a tout pour elle. [translated] New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa is a screen and stage smasher. With her beautiful timbre, easy high notes and ornamentation, fiery temperament and flair for acting, this young woman has it all.

    • La projection et la précision des vocalises (Smanie d'affanno) nourrissent une ligne vocale parfaitement maîtrisée d'un bout à l'autre. [translated] The projection and precision of [Madison Nonoa's] vocalisations (Smanie d'affanno) nourish a vocal line that is perfectly controlled from start to finish.

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