Elizabeth Madama

• AWARDS/MASTERCLASSES
• • Virtual Masterclass Participant – African-American Song, 2021 Art Song Preservation Society, NY
• • Art Song Preservation Society masterclasses with Tom Grubb, Tom Muraco, Joan Dornemann 2013-2016
• • Semi-Finalist, 2020, 2021 Classical Singer Virtual Competition
• • Finalist, 2015 Palm Springs Opera Guild Rossini Prize
• • Semi-Finalist, 2015 Jensen Foundation
• • Semi-Finalist, 2013 NY Oratorio Society Competition
• TRAINING
• • AAMS International Institute, Guest, Todi, 2022
• • AAMS Virtual Institute, Lampere, 2021
• • International Vocal Arts Institute, New York, 2016
• • Rossini Opera Academy, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, 2015
• • Rossini Opera Festival, Accademia Rossiniana Uditore, Pesaro, Italy, 2015
• • Berkshire Choral Festival, Scholarship Artist, MA, 2014
• • Opera Singers Initiative Young Artist Program, New York, 2013 - 2014
• • Full scholarship - Pacific Opera Ensemble Professional Development Program, NYC
• • Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship - for study with Giuliana Valente, Santa Cecilia, Rome

Soprano Elizabeth Madama has performed a wide variety of repertoire in the areas of opera, operetta, oratorio and art song throughout her singing career, and she continues to expand her musical horizons. While she spent many years singing the innocent heroines of both opera and operetta, including Le Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, Haensel und Gretel, Alessandro Stradella, Lobetanz, Countess Maritza, Die Lustige Witwe, G&S' The Yeomen of the Guard and Mikado, among many others, since moving to Italy she has expanded into Verdi and the larger-voiced Mozart heroines including Amelia (Simon Boccanegra), Countess and Donna Elvira.

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She adapted to the unprecedented situation for performers amid COVID-19, by continuing her musical outreach and performances virtually and connecting with friends and colleagues around the world, including being part of the AAMS institute in collaboration with Finnish National Opera during the summer of 2021 and performing Messiah excerpts with Holy Trinity Parish Church in the United Kingdom in 2020.

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She and her husband, tenor Stuart Homan, often perform together, including in a concert series in Todi, Italy in 2022 and in Ilfracombe, United Kingdom and Trieste, Milan and Osimo, Italy with a program featuring the works of Handel, Mozart and Schubert in previous seasons. They were also featured in concerts of Baroque pieces by Handel and oratorio selections by Bach as part of a concert series in Trieste, Italy in 2017 in honor of the anniversary of the Reformation and the music associated therewith. That same season Ms. Madama sang the soprano solos in the cantata Schwingt freudig euch empor and Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen by Bach, both as part of a concert series at the Chiesa Luterana in Trieste, Italy.

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Past engagements include the Petite Messe by Rossini with the Rossini Academy in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and attending the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, Italy, both under the direction of the late Maestro Alberto Zedda. Other performances included singing with Canticum Novum in excerpts from Mozart's Grand Mass, Musetta (La Boheme, scenes) at Carnegie Hall and the Mozart Requiem as the soprano soloist with the West Village Choral Society in New York City.

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Ms. Madama has been praised by critics for her portrayals of both dramatic and comedic characters on stage including Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberfloete) Giunone (La Calisto) and Princess Bozena (Countess Maritza). She has performed in operetta and musical theatre in New York, Chicago and Rome and has premiered original works by contemporary composers as a singer and violinist. In recital she has appeared in New York at the Roerich Museum series, the Lincoln Center Kaplan theatre as well as in concerts at the Concert Series of Rotonda, Italy, in opera scenes at the Chiesa San Clemente in Rome, Italy and the Schloss Paretz in Berlin, Germany. She is a former member of the esteemed Chicago Symphony Chorus under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and appeared in multiple recitals at Fulton Recital Hall while at the University of Chicago.

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A trained violinist, she studied for over 20 years with teachers in New York City, Chicago and Berlin before concentrating on voice. She holds a degree from the University of Chicago and studied at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin and in Rome, Italy.