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Hailed by the New York Times for his “robust singing” and Opera News for his “exquisite vocal beauty,” Grammy Award winning Canadian baritone Elliot Madore has established himself as an international artist in demand at the leading opera houses and orchestras of the world. In the 2024 – 2025 season Mr. Madore makes his role debut at the title role in Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, with Jacques Lacombe conducting Alain Gauthier’s production at Opéra de Montreal and a return to his long standing collaboration with the Boston Symphony to sing Frank and Fritz in Korngold’s Die tote Stadt conducted by music director Andris Nelsons. Additional announced engagements include his signature Carmina Burana with Colorado Symphony conducted by Brett Mitchell, a double bill of Carmina Burana and Michael Tilson Thomas’ Tilke Songs with the Louisville Orchestra, and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Reno Philharmonic.
The 2023 – 2024 season saw Mr. Madore’s return to Opernhaus Zürich as Oreste in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, with George Petrou leading the Orchestra La Scintilla, as well as Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd, opposite Bryn Terfel in the title role. Mr. Madore also made his house debut with Boston Lyric Opera as Orpheus in Matt Aucoin’s Eurydice, conducted by the composer, and returned to the title role in Don Giovanni with both Cincinnati Opera and Edmonton Opera. Concert appearances included baritone soloist in Carmina Burana with London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the Baltimore Symphony, Faure’s Requiem with the Alabama Symphony, and Duruflé’s Requiem with the Cincinnati Symphony. He also appeared as the baritone soloist in Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra and with Müpa Budapest. Mr. Madore also continued his position as a performing Associate Professor of Voice with the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music faculty.
Highlights of previous seasons at the Metropolitan Opera include performances of Mercutio in a new production of Roméo et Juliette which was broadcast live in HD, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Schaunard in La bohème, as Lysander in Jeremy Sam’s Baroque pasticcio The Enchanted Island, and Novice’s Friend in Billy Budd. Mr. Madore made his European operatic debut at the Glyndebourne Festival singing Ramiro in L’heure espagnole and Le chat and L’horloge comtoise in a new production of L’enfant et les sortilèges, and returned to the company later to sing the title role in Don Giovanni. He has also been seen in a return to Dutch National Opera for the European debut of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West as Ramón, in his house debut in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s new opera Julius Caesar with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, in his role debut as Figaro in Manitoba Opera’s production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, as the title role in Don Giovanni with Opera Philadelphia and Florida Grand Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and with the Tanglewood Festival, and as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte and Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, and with the Tanglewood Festival. Additional roles include Anthony in Sweeney Todd and Ramón in the world premiere of Girls of the Golden West with San Francisco Opera, Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd and Germano in La scala di seta with Opernhaus Zürich, Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette with Santa Fe Opera, his Salzburg Festival debut as the Japanese Envoy in concert performances of Stravinsky’s Le rossignol, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Kansas City Opera, his role debut as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with the Sieji Ozawa Music Academy in Japan, and his Dutch National Opera debut as Prince Hérisson de Porc-Epic in Chabrier’s L’étoile which was video recorded.
Additional highlights include his signature role of Pelléas in Pelléas et Melisande with the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Cleveland Orchestra with music director Franz Welser-Möst conducting Yuval Sharon’s production, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Charles Dutoit, Opéra-Théâtre de Limoges, Bremen Kammerphilharmonie, and with the Croatian National Opera in Stéphane Braunschweig’s production. As a featured member of the ensemble at Opernhaus Zürich, roles included Valentin in a new production of Faust, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Schaunard in La bohème, Andrei in a new production of Peter Eötvös’s Three Sisters, Silvio in Pagliacci, Silvano in Un ballo in maschera, and Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos under Fabio Luisi.
Orchestral highlights include his much-anticipated debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to sing Messiah, his debut at with the Concertgebouw Amsterdam as The Captain in John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer, his debut with both the Seattle Symphony and the Edinburgh Festival as the baritone soloist in Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion, his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic as Ramiro in L’heure espagnole and Le chat and L’horloge comtoise in of L’enfant et les sortilèges, Bernstein’s Songfest with the Tanglewood Festival, his debut at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts singing Carmina Burana with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by music director Gianandrea Noseda, Carmina Burana with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop, and with the Houston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Further highlights include the role of Emile de Becque in South Pacific with Cleveland Orchestra, a solo concert with the Edmonton Symphony, L’heure espagnole and L’enfant et les sortilèges with Charles Dutoit and Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, as Adario in Rameau’s Les Indes galantes marking the opening of the new Philharmonie Hall in Paris with Les Arts Florissants, and Ramón in a semi-staged production of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West Los Angeles Philharmonic. Mr. Madore has also sung Carmina Burana with the Cleveland Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Kalamazoo Bach Festival, Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Ballet, as well as with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä, the New World Symphony Orchestra conducted by Patrick Dupré Quigley, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, and the the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
On the recital stage, Mr. Madore has appeared at Carnegie Hall as part of Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues series, as well as with Cleveland Art Song Festival, and Music Toronto, which was broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. His Canadian recital debut took place at the National Arts Centre in Canada which was recorded and broadcast on the CBC Radio Two’s "Next! Canada's Music Future" Series.
Mr. Madore was part of the Grammy Award recording from the Saito Kinen Festival as Ramiro in L’heure espagnole and Le chat and L’horloge comtoise in L’enfant et les sortilèges, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
Honors and awards include being named a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a recipient of the 2010 George London Award from the George London Foundation, a winner of the Palm Beach Vocal Competition, and a recipient of the ARIAS Emerging Young Artist Award from Opera Canada. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Mr. Madore currently resides duly in Toronto, Canada and Zürich, Switzerland.
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