Having trained in opera directing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Madeleine has worked as an assistant director with The Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House - assisting directors including Richard Jones, Olivia Fuchs, Sarah Fahie and Anthony Almeida. Also working in theatre, last year she was resident director for Robert Icke's The Doctor for its tour and West End run. Madeleine was one of 10 directors invited to take part in the semi-final of the European Opera Directing Prize 2023 in Wiesbaden, Germany.

As a director she has worked with St Paul's Opera on a semi staged Hansel and Gretel, Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera with Five New Operas (Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester) and Tête à Tête the Opera Festival with A Thread Through Change (The Cockpit Theatre, London). Other directing credits include Moliere’s The Love Doctor and Venus and Adonis (Dora Stoutzker Concert Hall, Cardiff), The Drug Trial: Opera Scenes (Richard Burton Theatre, Cardiff), The Imposter (Atmospheres Festival Online), Dido and Aeneas (Cosmo Rhodewald Concert Hall, Manchester), and Godspell (Paradise in Augustines, Edinburgh). She is currently developing a new opera I Shot Mussolini.

She believes that the unique power of music and drama can and should be for everybody. For her the most important thing is making opera and theatre that has the potential to change the world, even for a brief moment.