Madeleine Holmes is a lyric soprano working in opera, concert and song. Since training with ENO she has played Tatyana Eugene Onegin, Mimì and Musetta La Bohème, Giorgetta Il Tabarro, Naiad Ariadne auf Naxos, Romilda Xerxes and Mrs Lovett Sweeney Todd, and created the characters of Eve in David Moore’s The Diaries of Adam and Eve and Strekoza in Brian Hosefros’ Strekoza i Muravej. Recital work includes contemporary song at the New Dots Symposium ROH / Clore and LSO St Luke’s, the première of Julian Philips’ dramatic monologue Life Lessens at the Bloomsbury Festival and Wigmore Hall, and Britten’s Four Burns Songs at The Red House, Aldeburgh.  While studying French and Italian at Cambridge, Madeleine worked in a jazz duo and now celebrates her love of the American Songbook as a guest vocalist at the Ritz. She has devised and performed biopic-concerts with The London Dance Orchestra, and hybrid classical-jazz programmes for INK and Dartington International Festivals.

Also a 450-hr trained yoga teacher, Madeleine integrates her work in mindful movement with her love of words, music and drama as vocal coach at The Actors’ Richmond Centre and as a visiting tutor to Morley College, Benslow Music Trust, Berkshire Choral International and Dartington International Summer School. Current projects include a recording with regular collaborator Gavin Roberts of lesser-known Italian 19th and 20th-century song, the result of a Finzi Trust Travel Scholarship, and the completion of her first book, a memoir travelling the liminal spaces of music and the mind.