Winner of the 2023 Opera Awards in Australia, (YMF Award - sponsored by YMF Australia, and Armstrong-Martin Scholarship), versatile soprano Eleanor Greenwood has sung in London, in the UK, in Europe, in Australia, and throughout China. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Music Opera School, and of the Australian National University, she has performed various roles and concerts.
For the Bendigo Ring Cycle 2023, Eleanor was seen as Sieglinde in Die Walküre. She also sang as Third Norn in Götterdämmerung, as Ortlinde in Die Walküre for two cycles, and covered the role of Freia in Das Rheingold for all cycles.
Eleanor is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music Opera Studio and the Australian National University School of Music, first prize winner of the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship competition. She made her professional debut in Ireland at the Opera Festival in Wexford singing as a mezzo-soprano. In the UK Eleanor sang with various companies and returned to Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland in various roles.
Eleanor was recently seen in Opera Queensland’s production of the Sopranos, performed at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, singing in scenes as Leonore from Fidelio and Abagaille from Nabucco. Eleanor toured throughout regional Queensland with the production in 2022 and sang in concert as part of the celebrated Festival of Outback Opera. She sang the soprano solo in Verdi’s magnificent Requiem, at QPAC, under the baton of Dane Lam.
Eleanor has sung the soprano solos in Mozart’s Requiem at St Andrew’s Cathedral and in Handel's Messiah at Brisbane City Hall. Concerts include an Opera Gala for the newly established National Opera in Canberra, Opera by the Lake (Childers), Music on Sundays (QSO), Opera in the Paddock (Armidale), Mozart by Moonlight (Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne), Opera in the Park (Boroondara) and an Opera Gala with The Parlour Fine Music in Melbourne. Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theatres in opera and concert productions with Australian International Productions.
Most recently Eleanor debuted as Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda for Melbourne Opera in Australia.
Eleanor is a graduate of London’s Royal Academy of Music Opera Studio and the Australian National University School of Music, first prize winner of the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship competition. She made her professional debut in Ireland at the Opera Festival in Wexford singing as a mezzo-soprano. In the UK Eleanor sang with various companies and returned to Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland in various roles.
Eleanor was recently seen in Opera Queensland’s production of the Sopranos, performed at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, singing in scenes as Leonore from Fidelio and Abagaille from Nabucco. Eleanor toured throughout regional Queensland with the production in 2022 and sang in concert as part of the celebrated Festival of Outback Opera. She sang the soprano solo in Verdi’s magnificent Requiem, at QPAC, under the baton of Dane Lam.
Eleanor has sung the soprano solos in Mozart’s Requiem at St Andrew’s Cathedral and in Handel's Messiah at Brisbane City Hall. Concerts include an Opera Gala for the newly established National Opera in Canberra, Opera by the Lake (Childers), Music on Sundays (QSO), Opera in the Paddock (Armidale), Mozart by Moonlight (Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne), Opera in the Park (Boroondara) and an Opera Gala with The Parlour Fine Music in Melbourne. Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theatres in opera and concert productions with Australian International Productions.
Most recently Eleanor debuted as Elisabetta in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda for Melbourne Opera in Australia.
"Excellent casting choices which included the moving, mysterious Waif from Eleanor Greenwood who scored in both of her vital scenes." (Wexford - MARIA) Opera Today
"..she is able to take honest command of the text at hand and its unique expression which beautifully finds its reflection in her singing." - Celina Lindsley, Soprano
Photo: Nicole Cleary
With Helena Dix as Maria Stuarda
With Helena Dix as Maria Stuarda