Madison Nonoa

New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa holds a Masters degree in Music from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied under the tutelage of Yvonne Kenny on the prestigious Opera Course. Since graduating in 2019, 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. Madison was named a Samling Artist in 2020, a Britten-Pears Young Artist for 2021/22, and is a former Dame Malvina Major Emerging Young Artist with New Zealand Opera, where she made her debut as Papagena/Die Zauberflöte.

Career highlights for Madison have included her festival debuts at the Salzburg and Whitsun Festivals, performing as Amore/Orfeo ed Euridice with Cecilia Bartoli and Gianluca Capuano, Amour/Orphée et Eurydice with Raphaël Pichon with Ensemble Pygmalion at the Pulsations Festival in Bordeaux, and her house and role debut as the title role in Dido and Aeneas for the Ustinov Studio at the Theatre Royal Bath. Other recent operatic engagements include Madison’s festival debut as the title role in Acis and Galatea, as well as Pleasure/The Choice of Hercules for the London Handel Festival, Maria/West Side Story  and Galatea/Polifemo for Opera du Rhin, Papagena/Die Zauberflöte at Glyndebourne, Amor/(m)Orpheus with New Zealand Opera, her house and role debut as Voce Dal Cielo/Don Carlo for Opéra de Monte-Carlo,  and her role debut as Zerlina/Don Giovanni for Aix-en-Provence Festival 2025.

The 25/26 season opens with Madison featuring in Birmingham Opera’s woman.life.song. She also performs Rossini’s Stabat Mater for New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and Mozart’s Requiem for Adelaide Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Mark Wigglesworth. Later in the season, she makes her Pinchgut Opera debut.

She acknowledges the ongoing support of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major Foundations.