Name: Holden Quin Madagame (pronounced [ma-‘da-ga-mi])
E-mail: holden.madagame@gmail.com
Location: Berlin, Germany
Pronouns: He/They
Voice: Tenor
Holden Madagame is an American tenor and University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance alumni. He studied with bass-baritone Stephen West as a mezzo soprano, and currently lives in Germany.
Holden is a passionate trans activist forging the way for trans-identified artists to work openly in opera and classical music. He hopes to reach out to both audiences and professionals to discuss gender and sexuality whenever possible.
Since beginning testosterone in autumn 2015, he has sung often both as a soloist and as a chorus singer. In 2017 he participated in the Glyndebourne Academy, and has since worked for companies such as Passaggio Oper, Fulham Opera, Gerhart Hauptmann Theater in Görlitz, and the Brandenburgisches Konzertorchester. In 2019 he collaborated to do the workshop premiere of ‘Good Country’, a newly composed opera about the life of transgender stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst. In the Corona years he has debuted the roles of ‘Dr. Blind’ in ‘Die Fledermaus’ for the Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen, the Witch in ‘Hänsel und Gretel’ and the Circus Director Springer in ‘Die verkaufte Braut’ at the Kammeroper Rheinsberg.