Madison Drace, soprano and musicologist
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Operatic roles

Suor Angelica
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mrs. Segstrom
Liu
Meg March
Third lady/Third spirit 
Mother/Sandman (us)

Suor Angelica
The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace
A Little Night Music
Turandot
Little Women
Die Zauberflöte  
Hansel and Gretel

Opera Susquehanna
Opera Ithaca
Opera Ithaca
Opera Susquehanna
UCO Opera
American Singers’ Opera Project
UCO Opera

Partial operatic roles

Fiordiligi
Echo
Second Lady
Adina
Fiorodiligi

Cosi fan Tutte
Ariadne auf Naxos
Die Zauerfloete
L'Elisir d'Amore
Cosi fan tutte

Opera Susquehanna
Opera Susquehanna
Intl. Performing Arts Institute
Bel Canto in Tuscany
Potomac Vocal Institute

Recitals

Video Game Music Recital: "No Promises to Keep" by N. Uematsu
Video Game Music Recital: "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday" by R. Muranaka
Clad in April's Bliss: A Recital of Songs of Nature and Love by Women
Video Game Music Recital: Songs by M. Morasky and N. Uematsu
Video Game Music Songs (feat. Gregg Rossetti)
Liederabend
Songs of Stefano Donaudy
North American Conference on Video Game Music
North American Conference on Video Game Music

First Unitarian Society of Ithaca
North American Conference on Video Game Music
VGM Together
Intl. Performing Arts Institute
Bel Canto in Tuscany

World Premiere Performances

Teatrum Chemicum Floridum by N. Davis | Tallahassee, FL

Publications

"The singing protagonist: Voice and identity in Transistor (2014) and Wandersong (2018)" | The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies

Conference Presentations

“Nice Song. Funny Too. Wrote It Yourself?:” “Artless Singing,” Musicking, and Relationships in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (2024) | Music and the Moving Image
“Artless Singing,” Musicking, and Relationships in Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (2024) | North American Conference on Video Game Music
Enchanted Hives Songs: Voice as a Weapon in Midsommar (2019) | (L)iteratures & Linguistics (In)terdisciplinary (C)onference

“Can’t Say Goodbye to Yesterday:” Tracing the Legacy of Carla Through Mixed Methodologies in the New Archive | American Musicological Society - Southern Chapter Conference
Presentation at AMS After Dark |American Musicological Society National Conference
"Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday:" Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001) and Tracing the Legacy of Carla White | Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium
Singing to Save the World: Voice and Identity in Transistor (2014) and Wandersong (2018) | North American Conference on Video Game Music

The Singing Protagonist: Voice and Identity in Transistor (2014) and Wandersong (2018) (Lightning Talk)| College Music Society National Conference
The Singing Protagonist: Voice and Identity in Transistor (2014) and Wandersong (2018) | GameSoundCon
Console to Stage: Arranging Video Game Arias for Live Performance (with Gregg Rossetti)| College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Conference
Arie di Mezzo Carattere: How Final Fantasy VI (1994) Accidentally Evoked an Eighteenth-Century Italian Aria Type | College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Conference
Arie di Mezzo Carattere: Reinventing the Eighteenth-Century Italian Aria in Final Fantasy VI (1994) | College Music Society Northeast Conference

Apprenticeships

Opera Ithaca                                                                                                              

Education

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
PhD in Musicology (in progress)

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Masters in Musicology

University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK
Masters in Music Performance

Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Bachelor of Arts in Music, cum laude

The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad) – Vienna, Austria
Music performance

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