Winner of the 2023 Opera Awards in Australia, 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 Sieglinde in Cycle 3 in Die Walküre. She also sang as Third Norn in Götterdämmerung, as Ortlinde in Die Walküre and covered the role of Freia in Das Rheingold.
Eleanor Greenwood 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. In the UK and Ireland Eleanor sang with various companies including Grange Park Opera and Dorset Opera Festival, and returned to Wexford Festival Opera in various roles.
Eleanor was seen in Opera Queensland’s production of the Sopranos, directed by Patrick Nolan and Laura Hansford, performed at QPAC, with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, singing 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 as an emerging artist. Most recently she sang the soprano solo in Verdi’s magnificent Requiem, at QPAC, under the baton of Dane Lam.
A diverse soprano, recent roles include Ortlinde in Die Walküre directed by Suzanne Chaundy, the Dama in Verdi’s Macbeth directed by Bruce Beresford, for which she was nominated for a Green Room Award, and Annio in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito for National Opera in Canberra, directed by Peter Coleman-Wright. Eleanor made her debut singing as a soprano at Melbourne Opera where she was a Richard Divall Emerging Soprano.
Eleanor has sung the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah at Brisbane City Hall and Mozart’s Requiem at St Andrew’s Cathedral. 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). Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theatres in opera and concert productions with Australian International Productions.
Eleanor Greenwood 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. In the UK and Ireland Eleanor sang with various companies including Grange Park Opera and Dorset Opera Festival, and returned to Wexford Festival Opera in various roles.
Eleanor was seen in Opera Queensland’s production of the Sopranos, directed by Patrick Nolan and Laura Hansford, performed at QPAC, with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, singing 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 as an emerging artist. Most recently she sang the soprano solo in Verdi’s magnificent Requiem, at QPAC, under the baton of Dane Lam.
A diverse soprano, recent roles include Ortlinde in Die Walküre directed by Suzanne Chaundy, the Dama in Verdi’s Macbeth directed by Bruce Beresford, for which she was nominated for a Green Room Award, and Annio in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito for National Opera in Canberra, directed by Peter Coleman-Wright. Eleanor made her debut singing as a soprano at Melbourne Opera where she was a Richard Divall Emerging Soprano.
Eleanor has sung the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah at Brisbane City Hall and Mozart’s Requiem at St Andrew’s Cathedral. 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). Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theatres in opera and concert productions with Australian International Productions.
"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
