Madison Marie McIntosh

madison marie mcintosh

“Sparkling” mezzo-soprano Madison Marie McIntosh has been praised for her “wondrously flexible voice” and “prodigious vocal skills” (Voce di Meche). OperaWire has praised her “vocal power,” “enchanting voice,” and “velvety mezzo-soprano.”

 In 2020, she won The American Prize in Vocal Performance in the women’s professional opera division. Madison has been featured as Ernesta (Un avvertimento ai gelosi) at Caramoor, Delia (Il viaggio a Reims) with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, and Alto Soloist (Messiah) with New Amsterdam Opera. She covered the title role of Tancredi and sang the Eco in the inaugural season of Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo. In 2019, she performed the role of Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) at the Wiener Kammeroper as a result of having won First Prize in the Vienna Summer Music Festival Competition. She was an Apprentice Artist at Sarasota Opera during the winter of 2018 and sang the Marchande in Carmen. In 2014, she had the opportunity to work with the late Mo. Alberto Zedda as a young artist of the Accademia Rossiniana.

Madison has also performed Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the title role of Carmen, Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri), Angelina (La Cenerentola), Cesare (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Hansel (Hansel and Gretel), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Sara (Roberto Devereux), Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), and lead roles in the world premières of four operas by Theodore Christman. She has premiered song cycles and other works by composers such as Peter Breiner, Paula Kimper, and Webster Young.

In 2019, she joined Eve Queler as a soloist in her 25th annual Bel Canto Opera Concert. She has been featured as a soloist in venues such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kravis Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, the DiMenna Center, and the Teatro Rossini.

Most recently, she was presented in a solo virtual concert in the Kravis Center’s series Kravis @ Home. She sang in one of Fort Worth Opera’s master classes with Jennifer Rowley; Jennifer Rowley and Fort Worth Opera’s Virtual Audition Intensive; and master classes with artists such as Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Kirsten Chambers, and Keith Chambers. She performed one of the 22 ariette by Vaccai in Will Crutchfield’s video “Bel Canto in Thirty Minutes,” which also includes singers such as Lawrence Brownlee, Jennifer Rowley, Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, and Tamara Mumford. Maryland Opera featured Madison as Alisa in its virtual performance of the sextet from Lucia di Lammermoor, and her videos of songs by living composers have been presented in Christman Opera Company’s series Voices Raising Voices. She was also featured in DictionBuddy’s virtual concert of Russian arias and songs.

More at:  http://www.lombardoassociates.org/madison-marie-mcintosh/