New Zealand soprano Madison Nonoa holds a Masters degree in Music from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she studied under Yvonne Kenny. Since graduating in 2019, Madison has made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera as First Siren in Rinaldo and was selected as a 2020/21 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 in The Magic Flute.
Career highlights for Madison have included her festival debuts at the Salzburg and Whitsun Festivals, performing as Amore in Orfeo ed Euridice with Cecilia Bartoli and Gianluca Capuano, 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 her festival debut as Maria in West Side Story and Galatea in Polifemo for Opera du Rhin; Papagena in The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne, and her role debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni for Aix-en-Provence Festival 2025.
She acknowledges the ongoing support of the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Dame Malvina Major Foundations.