Madeleine Shaw was a member of ENO’s Young Singers Programme, making her debut as the Beggar Woman in Deborah Warner’s production of Death in Venice – a role she reprised at La Monnaie Brussels, Dutch National Opera and La Scala Milan.
She recently created the title role in the world premiere of Elena Langer’s Rhondda Rips It Up! for Welsh National Opera, where she has also sung Annina/Der Rosenkavalier; elsewhere she has appeared as The Forester’s Wife/The Cunning Little Vixen and Roßweise/Die Walküre for the ROH and as Maddalena/Rigoletto for Glyndebourne and ENO.
Future engagements include her return to ENO as Rita in a new production of The Handmaid’s Tale and as Fricka in a new production of Das Rheingold directed by Richard Jones; her return to Glyndebourne and WNO and her debuts at Teatro Massimo, Palermo; Theater Basel and at the Opéra national de Paris.