Award-winning soprano, Madeleine Pierard was a Jette Parker Young Artist with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where she has since sung numerous roles.

For The Royal Opera, Madeleine has sung Contessa di Folleville (Il Viaggio a Reims), Musetta (La Boheme – London and Istanbul), Lisa (La Sonnambula), Berta (ll Barbiere di Siviglia), Sandmann (Hänsel und Gretel), Sacerdotessa (Aida), Noémie (Cendrillon) and Costanza in Haydn’s L’isola disabitata in Hobart; and covered the roles of Kát'a Kabanova, Violetta, Donna Anna, Marfa (The Tsar’s Bride), Elettra (Idomeneo) and Leila (Les Pêcheurs de Perles).

Other recent roles include Lady Macbeth with English Touring Opera; Violetta, Pat Nixon (Nixon in China), Miss Jessel (Turn of the Screw) and Musetta with NZ Opera; Musetta in Francesca Zambello’s La Boheme at the Royal Albert Hall; Louise (Louise), Elettra (Idomeneo) and Cecilio (Lucio Silla) for The Buxton Festival, Female Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia) under Muhai Tang in China, Mrs Julian (Owen Wingrave) with Grange Park Opera and the title role in Rufus Wainwright’s Prima Donna.

Madeleine's recent concert appearances include Beethoven's 9th Symphony with The Royal Philharmonia at The Barbican, and with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra; Britten's War Requiem at the Cadogan Hall; numerous appearances and recordings with the NZSO including Haydn's Creation and Handel's Messiah under Nicholas McGegan; Ross Harris’ Symphony No. 2 with the Orchestre Symphonique de Strasbourg and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire with Stroma. She has also featured as a soloist with The Royal Ballet in Fauré’s Requiem and Poulenc’s Gloria and in Carmina Burana at The London Coliseum.

A noted recitalist, she has appeared alongside Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and at the Wigmore and Cadogan Halls and The Royal Opera House.

Madeleine is a coach and mentor for The Royal Opera House, and has recently been named the inaugural Dame Malvina Major Chair in Opera at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato.