Elliot Madore

Canadian baritone Elliot Madore was born in 1987 and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He also attended the Voice Program at the Chautauqua Institution, studying with Marlena Malas, and the Gerdine Young Artist Program of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. In 2010 he was one of the prize-winners at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and won the George London Award of the George London Foundation as well as the ARIAS Emerging Young Artist Award of the Canadian Opera Student Development Fund. In 2009 he won the vocal competition of the Palm Beach Opera; in 2010 he was among the finalists at the Eleanor McCollum Vocal Competition in Houston. During the current and the coming season, he participates in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera.

Among the roles Elliot Madore has already performed are Yamadori in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (Opera Theatre of St. Louis/Opera Company Philadelphia), Harlequin and Music Master in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos under Christoph von Dohnányi (Tanglewood Music Festival) and Mozart’s Don Giovanni under James Levine (Tanglewood Music Festival). During this season, he once again sang Don Giovanni (Opera Theatre St. Louis) and Schaunard in La bohème (Opera Colorado), in addition to a song recital at the National Arts Centre in Canada.

During the 2011–12 season, he will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the role of Lysander in the baroque production The Enchanted Island and as the Novice’s Friend in Britten’s Billy Budd. In 2012, he will make his European Opera debut at the Glyndebourne Festival. Future engagements will take him to the Opera Company of Philadelphia, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, to the Angers-Nantes Opéra and back to the Metropolitan Opera.