Madelyn Renee

Who is Madelyn Renee?

Madelyn Renee is an American soprano formerly known as Madelyn Renée Monti. She was born in the later part of the 1900s in Boston. Renee had a significant relationship with late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. She currently lives in Milan, Italy.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, soprano Madelyn Renee attended the Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts and Cornell University and received her Bachelor's Degree from the Juilliard School in New York. Ms. Renee made her debut singing Mimi in La Bohème with Luciano Pavarotti, a role she later performed with the tenor in numerous theatres. Ms. Renée sang frequently with Luciano Pavarotti, including concerts at Madison Square Garden and at the Hollywood Bowl in addition to appearing with the tenor during his 2002/2003 concert tour in the United States. The soprano has sung in major opera houses worldwide, notably the Vienna Staatsoper, the Opera Nationale and the Opera Comique in Paris, the Sydney Opera, the Opéra de Montecarlo, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Geneva’s Grand Théâtre, the San Francisco Opera, the Budapest Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera and Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. In addition to Milan’s La Scala, the artist has appeared at more than thirty opera houses in Italy among which those in Rome, Parma, Turin, Venice, Trieste, Bologna, Lucca, Genova, Verona, Bari and Palermo. Ms. Renée has performed under the baton of such distinguished conductors as Sir Georg Solti, Richard Bonynge, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Luciano Berio, Daniel Barenboim, Alain Lombard, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Gustav Kuhn, Evelino Pido, and John Mauceri.