Madeleine Holmes is a lyric soprano. Since training with the English National Opera, she has performed in a wide range of roles including as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Mimì and Musetta in La Bohème, Giorgetta in Il Tabarro and Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd, and created Eve in David Moore's The Diaries of Adam and Eve and Strekoza in Brian Hosefros' Strekoza i Muravej. Recital work includes contemporary song at the New Dots Symposium at the Royal Opera House, Clore and LSO St Luke's, premièring Julian Philips' dramatic monologue Life Lessens at the Bloomsbury Festival and Wigmore Hall, and Britten's Four Burns Songs at The Red House, Aldeburgh. Having worked in a jazz duo while studying French and Italian at Cambridge, Madeleine appears as guest vocalist at the Ritz and in hybrid classical-jazz programmes for INK, New Paths and Dartington International Festivals. Also trained in yoga, Madeleine integrates mindful movement with words, music and drama as visiting vocal coach at The Actors' Richmond Centre, Morley College, Benslow Music, Berkshire Choral International, Dartington International Summer School and Melofonetica. Current projects include a recording of Italian 19th and 20th-century songs discovered thanks to a Finzi Trust Travel Scholarship, and the completion of a narrative memoir travelling the liminal spaces of music and the mind.
