Tony Madigan

Anthony Carroll Madigan was born in New York, but soon moved to Spain with his family. Graduated from the University of Cambridge in French and Spanish Literature, he took singing lessons with Jaume Francesch Puig and piano wit Maria Canela in Barcelona (Spain), paying for his lessons with the money he made as an Actor. Having been trained as an actor by William Layton and then by the Uta Hagen School in New York, he taught for two years at the Institut de Teatre in Barcelona and at the Conservatory in Madrid. Thereafter, he spent a year in Paris as an Assistant to the mythical pianist Arturo Rubinstein and settled in Germany for two decades, working with the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the German Opera in Berlin, Zurich Opera, the Frankfurt and the Essen Opera. At the end of the 80's he resumed his singing studies in New York and began to elaborate a synthesis between the Manuel Garcia Method, the Alexander Technique and the so-called Stanislavski Method. Created a small Napolitan Barroque Music company and collaborated with the Julliard Opera Center. In 2000 he directed the opera "Eumelio" by Agostini Agazzari (1607) in Milan. In that same year he opened a Singing Studio downtown Madrid, where he taught classes based on the Garcia's teachings and paid special attention to various vocal pathology's. Likewise he worked with various Theater and Opera companies, in Tv series and in feature films for the big screen. He wrote and published a book entitled "An Act of Freedom" on musical phenomenology, in collaboration with the director and composer Antoni Ros-Marba, for who he also wrote the libretto of an Opera about Walter Bejamin, with its premier taking place at the Liceu in Barcelona. Tony Madigan passed away on July 11th, 2020 in Madrid (Spain), and never got so see the premier of his latest feature film "So, my Grandmother is Lesbian" (A.K.A. Salir del Ropero).