Elliot Madore

Hailed by The New York Times for his “robust singing” and Opera News for his “exquisite vocal beauty,” Grammy Award-winning Canadian baritone Elliot Madore has established himself as an international artist in demand at leading opera houses and orchestras around the world. The 2023-24 season included Madore’s return to Opernhaus Zürich as Oreste in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, with George Petrou leading the Orchestra La Scintilla, as well as Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd opposite Bryn Terfel. Madore also made his debut with Boston Lyric Opera as Orpheus in Matt Aucoin’s Eurydice, conducted by the composer, and returned to the title role in Don Giovanni with Edmonton Opera. His concert appearances include Carmina Burana with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Fauré’s Requiem with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and Duruflé’s Requiem with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. This season, Madore also continues as a performing associate professor of voice with the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

In the 2022-23 season, Madore returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic to sing Ramón in a semi-staged production of John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West and made his debut with the Concertgebouw Amsterdam as The Captain in Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer, conducted by the composer. Madore made his debut with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in Handel's Messiah under music director Gustavo Gimeno, and with both the Seattle Symphony and the Edinburgh Festival as the baritone soloist in Tan Dun’s Buddha Passion. He returned to the Tanglewood Music Festival to sing Guglielmo in Così fan tutte under Music Director Andris Nelsons and performed the title role in Don Giovanni in concert with the National Arts Centre in Canada. Other 2022-23 highlights included Carmina Burana with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and Hong Kong Ballet, and appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Oregon Symphony, and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.

Previous performances at the Metropolitan Opera include Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette broadcast live in HD, Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Schaunard in La Bohème, Lysander in The Enchanted Island, and Novice’s Friend in Billy Budd. Madore made his European debut at the Glyndebourne Festival in L’heure espagnole and L’enfant et les sortilèges, and later returned to perform the title role in Don Giovanni. Other notable appearances have included the European debut of Girls of the Golden West with Dutch National Opera, the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Julius Caesar at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, and performances in The Barber of Seville with Manitoba Opera, Don Giovanni with Opera Philadelphia, and Ariadne auf Naxos with Bayerische Staatsoper and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

Madore’s orchestral highlights include his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in L’heure espagnole and L’enfant et les sortilèges, Bernstein’s Songfest at Tanglewood, and Carmina Burana with the LA Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and Houston Symphony. He also performed South Pacific with The Cleveland Orchestra, and Les Indes galantes with Les Arts Florissants, marking the opening of Philharmonie Hall in Paris. Additional performances have included his debut with the LA Philharmonic in selections from Die Zauberflöte under Gustavo Dudamel, and multiple appearances of Carmina Burana with various orchestras.

On the recital stage, Madore has appeared at Carnegie Hall as part of Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues series, at the Cleveland Art Song Festival, and in a concert for Music Toronto broadcast on CBC. His Canadian recital debut at the National Arts Centre was also recorded and broadcasts on CBC Radio.

Madore was part of the Grammy Award-winning recording of L’heure espagnole and L’enfant et les sortilèges from the Saito Kinen Festival, conducted by Seiji Ozawa.

Honors include being named a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, receiving the 2010 George London Award, winning the Palm Beach Vocal Competition, and receiving the ARIAS Emerging Young Artist Award from Opera Canada. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Madore resides in Toronto and Zürich.