Madison Marie Mcintosh - mezzo soprano
“Sparkling” mezzo-soprano Madison Marie McIntosh has been praised for her “wondrously flexible voice,” “prodigious vocal skills,” and “richly textured and strong lower register” (Voce di Meche). OperaWire has praised her “vocal power,” “enchanting voice,” “velvety mezzo-soprano,” and “abundant vocal and dramatic technique, with no shortage of soaring high notes and flexible roulades.” In 2023, she made her Carnegie Hall mainstage debut as the mezzo-soprano soloist in Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, presented by MidAmerica Productions during the company’s 40th Anniversary Season. Since then, she has returned to Carnegie Hall as a soloist in Bach’s Magnificat, BWV 243 (2024); Vivaldi’s Magnificat, RV 610 (2024 and 2025); and Monteverdi’s Magnificat a sei voci (2025). In 2020, she won The American Prize in Vocal Performance. McIntosh has performed principal and secondary roles with companies such as Caramoor, the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, Teatro Grattacielo, and the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice; sung in concerts and other events presented by Florida Grand Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Sarasota Opera, Teatro Nuovo, and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts; and performed in four of Mo. Eve Queler’s annual concerts in Blandford, Massachusetts, alongside renowned singers such as soprano Latonia Moore. She also performed in the 2025 Fashion Week Finale at Macy’s Herald Square, which highlighted designer Shani Grosz.
McIntosh frequently collaborates with composers and has premiered roles such as Ophelia (Mirrors, by Nathan Felix), Hernán Cortés (La Malinche, by Nathan Felix), Margaret Dunlop Gibson and Rachel (Geniza: Hidden Fragments, by Arnold Saltzman), Francesca Da Ponte (Da Ponte, by Roger Neill and Neil Cohen), Victoria (A las once de la noche, by Walter Seyfarth and Liche Ariza), Irina (The Prodigal Daughter, by composers including Patricio Molina and Harrison Sheckler), Mary (Mary’s Magnificat, by Manne Von M), Claire (Bomb Squad Rhapsody, by Jane Kozhevnikova and Germaine Shames), Spatz (No. 5, by Nathan Felix), and principal roles in five operas by composer Theodore Christman. In addition, she has premiered song cycles and other works by composers such as Peter Breiner. In 2025, she premiered the role of Lieutenant Mary James in 3:16, by acclaimed composers including Jeff Shankley. She has also performed in scenes from 3:16 alongside artists such as Liche Ariza, best known for his roles in television dramas such as The Chosen.
McIntosh has also performed the title roles in Carmen, La Cenerentola, and Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia); Isabella (L’Italiana in Algeri); Hansel (Hansel and Gretel); Maffio Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia); Dido (Dido and Aeneas); Ruggiero (Alcina); La Ciesca (Gianni Schicchi); Sara (Roberto Devereux); Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena); Zerlina (Don Giovanni); and Melissa (La liberazione di Ruggiero). In 2019, she performed the role of Prinz Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus) at the Wiener Kammeroper as a result of winning First Prize in the Vienna Summer Music Festival Competition.
In 2020, she performed one of the 22 ariette by Vaccai in Will Crutchfield’s video “Bel Canto in Thirty Minutes,” which also included singers such as Lawrence Brownlee, Jennifer Rowley, Lisette Oropesa, Angela Meade, Tamara Mumford, and Michael Spyres. She performed a digital benefit concert for The American Prize that featured the world premieres of works by eight composers, and she collaborated with Mo. Eve Queler on the digital premiere of Theodore Christman’s opera The Impresario and the Dueling Divas.