Madeline Bender

Soprano


 





Bender Whelan, Midsummer's Night Feb. 2003, Pittsburgh Opera

Paul Whelan and Madeline Bender
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pittsburgh Opera (February 2003)
Photo Joe Appel, Tribune-Review
 
 
 

Upcoming dates

February 6 and 8 2004
Opera Birmingham
Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucia

23-26 March 2004
Rouen
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Konstanze

May 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 2004
Vancouver Opera
La Traviata, Violetta

13-31 July 2004
Aix en Provence
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Konstanze

November 2 -December 31 2004
La Monnaie, Brussels
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena


Discography


 

as Eurydice in C.W. GLUCK'S Orfeo et Eurydice
conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner,  directed by Robert Wilson

DVD distributed in the US by Image Entertainment..
 

Also:
Serafina in DONIZETTI'S Il Campanello di notte
Manhattan School of Music (live recording); Christopher Larkin conducting.

CD by Newport Classics


RECENT APPEARANCES

September 3-October 19 2003
Toulouse
Die Zauberflöte Pamina

June 7-9; July 6-26 2003
Baden Baden; Aix-en-Provence
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Konstanze
Aix-en-Provence Festival canceled - rescheduled for 2004

February 22-March 23 2003
Lyric Opera of Kansas City
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Konstanze

January 13-February 9 2003
Pittsburgh Opera
A Midsummer Night's Dream Helena

October 2002
Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Massachusetts
Symphony Hall. Grant Llewellyn, conducting.
J.S. Bach: Mass in B minor

June 23-August 4 2002
Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, New Mexico
L'italiana in Algeri  Elvira
La Traviata Violetta

May 14-16 2002
Strasbourg, Palais des Congrès
Conservatoire de Luxembourg
International Festival d'Echternach
Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg,
Emmanuel Krivine, conducting
Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No. 4 G major for soprano and orchestra

March 21-24 2002
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
"From Vienna to Broadway"
press release

January 2002
Birmingham, Alabama
La Traviata Violetta
press release

New Year's Eve 2001-2: Avery Fisher Hall, New York New York
New York Philharmonic
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conducting
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (Choral)
Press release
 


July 2001
Festival de Saint-Riquier
(photo copyright Didier Cry - France)

May-June 2001
Glyndebourne Festival
Midsummer's Night Dream Helena

February 2001
Opera-Montpellier (FR)
Ippolito ed Aricia Ippolito

New Year's Eve 2001
Detroit

December 2000
Washington D.C.
Kennedy Center Holiday Concerts

October 2000
Birmingham, AL
La Boheme    Mimi

June 2000
Opera Theater St. Louis Press release
 Radamisto (Handel) Tigrane

March-April 2000
Paris: Mitridate, Re di Ponto Ismene
Theatre Chatelet

January 2000
London: Royal Palace (Weill)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis conducting

New Year's Eve 2000
Detroit: Detroit Symphony New Year's Eve Gala

December 1999
Toronto: Messiah
Toronto Symphony, Sir Andrew Davis conducting

November 1999
Chicago: Chicago Humanities November Festival

October 1999
Paris: Orfeo et Eurydice (Gluck) Eurydice
Theatre Chatelet
John Eliot Gardiner and Robert Wilson

May 1999
St. Louis: Beauty in Merchant and the Pauper (World Premiere) at Opera Theater St. Louis


Recent reviews and links

"5 Questions" in Forum Opera, June 2003

The fabulous 1999 write up in Opera News (with photos)
Operissimo's mostly up to date listing of Madeline's engagements.

Page intermittently updated by Courtney Bender cb337@columbia.edu
Last updated 27 June 03