About Madeleine

Madeleine has worked as a staff director with Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House - assisting directors including Richard Jones, Olivia Fuchs, and Anthony Almeida.  Most recently she assisted Sarah Fahie on her staging of Sarah Angliss's new opera Giant at Snape Maltings which opened this year's Aldeburgh Festival.  She also works in theatre, and last year was resident director for Robert Icke's 'The Doctor' for its tour and West End run. This spring Madeleine was one of 10 directors invited to take part in the semi-final of the European Opera Directing Prize 2023 in Wiesbaden, German, to present a production concept to a jury panel made up of international company directors.

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As a director she has worked with St Paul's Opera on a semi staged Hansel and Gretel, Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera with Five New Operas (Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester) and Tête à Tête the Opera Festival with A Thread Through Change (The Cockpit Theatre, London). Other directing credits include Moliere’s The Love Doctor and Venus and Adonis (Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall, Cardiff), The Drug Trial: Opera Scenes (Richard Burton Theatre, Cardiff), The Imposter (Atmospheres Festival Online), Dido and Aeneas (Cosmo Rhodewald Concert Hall, Manchester), and Godspell (Paradise in Augustines, Edinburgh). She has also worked as a broadcast assistant on radio drama productions for the BBC, both on location and in the studio.

 

Madeleine has a First in Music from the University of Manchester and graduated with Distinction from an MA in Opera Directing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She believes that the unique power of music and drama can and should be for everybody. For her the most important thing is making opera and theatre that has the potential to change the world, even for a brief moment.