Madie Hendrix

Madie Hendrix is a blind coloratura soprano currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. She has performed at churches throughout the southeast, and has sung Carmina Burana and Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Notable operatic highlights include her portrayal of Jenny in Street Scene by Weill, Fanchette in Le Mariage Aux Lanternes by Offenbach, one of the Due Donne in Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro, and Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Angelica.

Madie recently won the Harrower Scholarship for Voice, and the 2023 Georgia State University Honors Recital. She completed her BA in Voice at the University of Montevallo in 2020, and received a Masters degree in Voice Performance at Georgia State University in May 2023. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at Georgia State, where she is preparing the role of Adina in Donizetti's L'elisir D'amore.

In January 2023, Madie was given the opportunity to fully participate in a stage combat workshop. Her article detailing how a visually impaired singer might work through challenges on the operatic stage, "A Blind Soprano's Experience with Stage Combat", was published in the November issue of the leading newsletter for the National Federation of the Blind.

Madie aims to bring access and equality to the operatic stage, and wishes for her blindness to not be a barrier to performing, but rather for it to open the door for diverse and inclusive casting.