Soprano Elizabeth Madama has performed a wide variety of repertoire in the areas of opera, oratorio and art song throughout her singing career, and she continues to expand her musical horizons. Now based in Arezzo, Italy, she recently participated in a masterclass with esteemed mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova through the Fondazione Guido d'Arezzo, Stanze delle Opere, and along with her husband, tenor Stuart Homan, was featured on the Vasari Walk, a historical and artistic tour commemorating the 450th anniversary of Giorgio Vasari's death. During the summers of 2021 and 2022, she was part of the AAMS institute in collaboration with Finnish National Opera. In 2020 and 2021 she also performed virtually, including in Messiah excerpts with Holy Trinity Parish Church in the United Kingdom and masterclasses with the Art Song Preservation Society of New York .

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She and her husband often perform together, including in a concert series in Todi, Italy in 2022 and in Ilfracombe, United Kingdom and Trieste, Milan and Osimo, Italy with a program featuring the works of Handel, Mozart and Schubert previously. They were also featured in concerts of Baroque pieces by Handel and oratorio selections by Bach as part of a concert series in Trieste, Italy in 2017 in honor of the anniversary of the Reformation and the music associated therewith.  That same season Ms. Madama sang the soprano solos in the cantata Schwingt freudig euch empor and Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen by Bach, both as part of a concert series at the Chiesa Luterana in Trieste, Italy.

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Past engagements include the Petite Messe by Rossini with the Rossini Academy in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and attending the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, Italy, both under the direction of the late Maestro Alberto Zedda. Other performances included singing with Canticum Novum in excerpts from Mozart's Grand Mass, Musetta (La Boheme, scenes) at Carnegie Hall and the Mozart Requiem as the soprano soloist with the West Village Choral Society in New York City.

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Ms. Madama has been praised by critics for her portrayals of both dramatic and comedic characters on stage including Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberfloete) Giunone (La Calisto) and Princess Bozena (Countess Maritza). She has performed in operetta and musical theatre in New York, Chicago and Rome and has premiered original works by contemporary composers as a singer and violinist.  In recital she has appeared in New York at the Roerich Museum series, the Lincoln Center Kaplan theatre, Le Poisson Rouge, the Arader Gallery, Christ and St. Stephen's Church as well as in concerts at the Concert Series of Rotonda, Italy, and in opera scenes at the Chiesa San Clemente in Rome, Italy and the Schloss Paretz in Berlin, Germany.  She is a former member of the prestigious Chicago Symphony Chorus under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and appeared in multiple recitals at Fulton Recital Hall while at the University of Chicago.

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Awards include 2020 and 2021 Semi-Finalist Classical Singer Online Competition, Professional Division, 2015 Finalist for the Rossini Prize, Palm Desert Competition, 2013 Semi-Finalist in the NY Oratorio Society Competition, 2012 and 2013 Finalist in the Jenny Lind International Competition for Sopranos, and a Semi-Finalist in the Orpheus National Voice Competition. She was a full scholarship recipient with the Pacific Opera Ensemble Professional Development Program and received a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in Rome, Italy. She has been recognized by foundations including Gerda Lissner, Opera Singer's Initiative and the Art Song Preservation Society. 

 

A trained violinist, she studied for over 20 years with teachers in New York City, Chicago and Berlin before concentrating on voice.  She holds a degree from the University of Chicago and studied at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin and in Rome, Italy.