MadisonNonoa
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
About Madison
New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa is a recent graduate of the prestigious opera course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Madison has made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera as First Siren (Rinaldo) and was selected as a 2020/2021 Jerwood Young Artist for the Festival. She was named a Samling Artist in 2020 and is a current Britten-Pears Young Artist, as well as a former Dame Malvina Major Emerging Young Artist with New Zealand Opera, where she made her debut as Papagena (Die Zauberflöte).
Madison has performed nationally and internationally with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra and with the London Philharmonia at the Royal Festival Hall. Competition highlights include being the first prize winner of the Dame Malvina Major Arias in Christchurch and Wellington, as well as being awarded the first prize in the Napier Aria, Tauranga competitions and receiving 2nd prize in the New Zealand Aria Competition. She was a semi-finalist in the London Bach Singing competition and the International Handel Singing Competition and a finalist in the 2016 Lexus Song Quest, where she was selected as the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation “Most Promising Singer”.
Recent highlights for Madison have seen her make several debuts, including festival debuts at the Salzburg and Whitsun Festivals as Amore (Orfeo ed Euridice), Amour (Orphée et Eurydice) with Raphaël Pichon and Ensemble Pygmalion at the Pulsations Festival in Bordeaux, as well as a house and role debut as the title role in Dido and Aeneas for the Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal Bath. In addition, she recently returned to New Zealand Opera in the role of Amor in their production of (m)Orpheus.
She acknowledges the ongoing support of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major Foundations.
Representation
Worldwide general management with Askonas Holt
Season Highlights
Audio
- Madison Nonoa sings Debussy 'C'est l'extase langoureuse'
- Madison Nonoa sings Britten's 'The Last Rose of Summer' with Malcolm MartineauCredit: BBC Radio 3
- Madison Nonoa sings Schubert's 'Im Fruhling'
Selected Repertoire
| Bellini | I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Giulietta) |
|---|---|
| Britten | A Midsummer Nights Dream (Tytania) |
| Cavalli | La Calisto (Nymph) |
| Donizetti | La Fille du Régiment (Marie) |
| Handel | Acis & Galatea (Galatea) • Oreste (Ifigenia) • Rinaldo (Almirena) • Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra, arias only) • Alcina (Morgana, arias only) • Semele (Title role, arias only) |
| Monteverdi | Lamento della Ninfa (Soprano) • Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Narrator, Clorinda) |
| Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna) • The Magic Flute (Papagena) • Cosi fan tutte (Despina) • Don Giovanni (Zerlina) |
| Purcell | The Fairy Queen (Woman 1) |
| Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier (Sophie) |
Press
Aix-en-Provence 2024 Voice Residency
Aix-en-ProvenceJun 2024 - Jul 2024La soprano Madison Nonoa lance sa voix comme un appel aux forces cosmiques de la nuit, la met en vibration, l’étire, la lisse et l’aiguise, telle une épée magique. Elle fait de ses aigus filés non une manière de chanter mais une manière de composer de la musique. [translated] Soprano Madison Nonoa launches her voice like a call to the cosmic forces of the night, sets it vibrating, stretches it, smooths it and sharpens it, like a magic sword. She makes her high notes not a way of singing but a way of composing music.
- Florence Lethurgez, Olyrix
- 29 June 2024
Madison Nonoa tire son épingle du jeu, par la délicatesse épidermique de son interprétation. La voix coule, s’écoule, se lève avec le soleil matinal de pianissimi filés, après avoir gravi avec une grâce de dentellière de grands intervalles expressifs. Son duo pastoral avec Jonghyun Park lui permet d’ajouter de la décoration à l’émotion, de roucouler et jongler avec sa voix, avec un bonheur d’enfant. [translated] Madison Nonoa stands out from the crowd, with the epidermal delicacy of her interpretation. The voice flows, flows, rises with the morning sun of spun pianissimi , after having climbed with a lacemaker's grace of great expressive intervals. Her pastoral duet with Jonghyun Park allows her to add decoration to the emotion, to coo and juggle with her voice, with a child's happiness.
- Florence Lethurgez, Olyrix
- 10 July 2024
