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The Canadian baritone also sings the role of Franz Wolff-Metternich in the world premiere of La beauté du monde at Opéra de Montréal, and returns to both Opernhaus Zürich and Manitoba Opera to sing Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd. The 2020 – 2021 season sees Madore’s return to The Metropolitan Opera to sing Mercutio in the Bartlett Sher production of Roméo et Juliette. At just 33, Madore’s career spans the past decade, singing in major opera companies and orchestras throughout Europe, The United States and Canada. Grammy® Award-winning Canadian baritone, Elliot Madore has established himself as one of the most sought after, accomplished singers of his generation, enthralling audiences around the world with his “robust singing and take-no-prisoners acting” (The New York Times), “exquisite vocal beauty” (Opera News) and “movie star good looks” (Merkur). “Maybe the individual who listens to this piece is searching for something – just as we all are.” The culmination of this collaboration will premiere in 2022 as a filmed presentation, with the intention to expand to a live-show production. In collaboration with genre-bending composer Dinuk Wijeratne and acclaimed poet Shauntay Grant, AtG and Madore will present a song cycle that sets new and original Canadian poetry to music that fuses classical music with an array of influences. In early June 2020, Torontonian and baritone Elliot Madore opened up on social media about his struggles with “unabashedly expressing identity” as a biracial person.ĪtG Artistic Director Joel Ivany and Elliot Madore came together to find a way to present to the Canadian arts community the universal themes behind Madore’s moving Instagram post.
“ Through my personal story and my strife with identity, I’ve come to realize that this is a common theme throughout society that hasn’t been fully explored: our collective and individual struggle with who we are, our identity.”