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The University of Wisconsin-Superior Music Department will present Senior Lecturer Jeffrey Madison, baritone, with Teresa Vaughan on piano at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, in Webb Recital Hall. The performance is part of the University Recital Series.
Madison will perform works ranging from opera and art song to musical theater.
“I haven’t done a solo recital in more than a decade because I have focused on stage directing, and I thought this would be a wonderful opportunity to perform some of my favorite music,” Madison said. “Many of these pieces have been with me for years, like old friends. Others I have loved for as long as I can remember but have never had the opportunity to perform.”
Madison is a baritone and stage director whose work spans opera, musical theater and Shakespeare. As a performer, he has appeared with organizations including Minnesota Opera, the Minnesota Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony and Chautauqua Opera. He also has performed at Carnegie Hall with the Minnesota Orchestra.
In the Twin Ports region, Madison has performed with Lyric Opera of the North, the Duluth-Superior Symphony Orchestra, Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra and the Duluth Playhouse. He also has been featured on Minnesota Public Radio broadcasts of Hansel and Gretel and La Bohème.
As a director, Madison has worked with Lyric Opera of the North, UW-Superior, the University of Minnesota Opera Theater, Skylark Opera and the Duluth Playhouse. Recent directing credits include Hansel and Gretel, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Blue Viola, The Fantasticks, Company and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He also created and directed a children’s adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Flute for St. Croix Valley Opera.
Madison is a past Metropolitan Opera National Council District winner and first-place winner of the Schubert Club Competition graduate division. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of Minnesota and serves on the UW-Superior music faculty.
Tickets are $15 and will be available at the door. Webb Recital Hall is located in the Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center, 1805 Catlin Ave.