CCM Voice Professor Elliot Madore on cover of Opera Canada's winter magazine
Elliot Madore's Opera Canada cover story will be available to read later this winter
UC College-Conservatory of Music Voice Professor Elliot Madore is featured in the cover story of the winter edition of Opera Canada magazine. The issue went to print on Dec. 14, 2023, and will be available later this winter.
Madore sings the role of Anthony Hope in Stephen Sondheim's Sweeny Todd at Opernhaus Zürich in Switzerland from Dec. 22, 2023-Jan. 13, 2024. His other 2024 engagements include the title role in Don Giovanni with Edmonton Opera (Feb. 1-3, 2024), Orpheus in Eurydice with Boston Lyric Opera (March 1-10, 2024), the title role in Don Giovanni with Cincinnati Opera (June 13-15, 2024) and a soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana with London Symphony Orchestra (June 23-25, 2024). Learn more about Madore on his professional website.
Look for Elliot Madore's cover story in the winter edition of Opera Canada magazine.
Elliot Madore
Associate Professor of Voice, CCM Voice
Dieterle Vocal Arts Cntr
Professor Madore has been recognized as a highly-acclaimed teacher of voice and opera. His students have been invited to study at elite training programs including the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, the Chautauqua Opera Program, SongFest, Aspen Opera Program and the Des Moines Apprentice Artist Program. His students are performing operatic and musical theater repertoire on the national and international stage and on Broadway. Professor Madore has also taught at several prominent summer music programs including The Banff Center for Arts and Creativity and The National Opera Intensive with Against the Grain Theater. Professor Madore is a frequent master teacher having been invited to the University of Toronto, Florida Grand Opera Young Artist Program, Atelier lyrique at l’Opéra de Montréal, University of Alberta, The Glenn Gould School at The Royal Conservatory of Music, Kalamazoo College, the University of Manitoba, among others.
The 2021 – 2022 season saw Mr. Madore’s house debut in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s new opera Julius Caesar with Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, directed by Robert Carsen and conducted by Daniele Gatti. Mr. Madore also made his role debut as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with the Sieji Ozawa Music Academy in Japan. Orchestral work includes Carmina Burana with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by music director Gustavo Dudamel.
Over the past decade, Madore has performed in such illustrious European Opera Houses and Concert Halls as the Berlin Philharmonic, Zurich Opera House, Dutch National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, and, among others, the Bayerische Staatsoper. He’s had the immense pleasure of working with such conducting luminaries such as Seiji Ozawa, Kirill Petrenko, Franz Welser-Möst, Marco Armiliato, Fabio Luisi, Gustavo Dudamel, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Nello Santi, William Christie, Gianandrea Noseda, and many more.
In addition to being the grand prize winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Madore was also the recipient of the 2010 George London Award for a Canadian Singer from the George London Foundation. He was also the winner of the 2009 Palm Beach Vocal Competition. Madore is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied with Marlena Malas.
About CCM Opera/ Voice
Declared a top college vocal program by Backstage Magazine and described as “one of the continent’s major music schools,” by the Toronto Star, CCM’s Departments of Opera and Voice provide one of the most comprehensive training programs for opera singers, coaches and directors in the United States. CCM offers an international faculty of dedicated educators who are also celebrated professionals in their own right, widely and currently active in their respective fields. Several national opera companies hold auditions at the conservatory, and CCM students frequently advance to the final rounds of the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions. CCM graduates have performed on the stages of the world’s greatest opera companies, including Cincinnati Opera, the Metropolitan Opera (New York), Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera (London), La Scala (Italy) and more.
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