Eleanor Greenwood has sung on stage and on Radio, 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, and is a winner of the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship Competition. In opera productions Eleanor has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Schweizer Radio DRS, RTE Radio, Ireland and ABC Classic FM Australia.
Eleanor Greenwood is a graduate of London's Royal Academy of Music Opera School and the Australian National University’s School of Music, first prize winner of the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship Competition. Eleanor made her professional debut in Ireland at the Opera Festival in Wexford, in Statkowski's little known Polish Opera, Maria. Recently she performed the role of Annio in La Clemenza di Tito for National Opera in Canberra as directed by Peter Coleman-Wright, and under the baton of Dane Lam.
Thrilled to be in Melbourne and engaged as a Richard Divall Emerging Artist, Eleanor sang the role of the Dama in Verdi's Macbeth and understudied the role of Wellgunde in Melbourne Opera’s production of Das Rheingold, directed by Suzanne Chaundy.
In the UK Eleanor sang at Grange Park Opera and the Dorset Opera Festival, and she returned to Wexford Festival Opera performing L'innocente in L'Arlesiana by Cilea and as La Ciesca in Puccini's comedy Gianni Schicchi. She sang as the Woodpecker, Forester’s Wife and the Grasshopper at the Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. Eleanor also performed Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and Zerlina in Don Giovanni as a part of the Bloomsbury Festival in London, under musical director, Jessica Cottis.
As an oratorio soloist, Eleanor has sung the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah at Brisbane City Hall with the Queensland Choir and the Mozart Requiem with St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir in Sydney. An experienced recitalist, Eleanor has sung in concert at Opera by the Lake for Opera Queensland, appeared as part of the Music on Sundays programme with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, hosted by Guy Noble, in Adelaide with the Italian Arts Society, hosted by Vincent Ciccarello and ‘Opera in the Paddock’ in Armidale NSW. Internationally, Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theatres with Australian International Productions performing in concert and opera.
Eleanor is a grateful past recipient of a grant from the Ian Potter Cultural Society and the Wagner Society of NSW.
Thrilled to be in Melbourne and engaged as a Richard Divall Emerging Artist, Eleanor sang the role of the Dama in Verdi's Macbeth and understudied the role of Wellgunde in Melbourne Opera’s production of Das Rheingold, directed by Suzanne Chaundy.
In the UK Eleanor sang at Grange Park Opera and the Dorset Opera Festival, and she returned to Wexford Festival Opera performing L'innocente in L'Arlesiana by Cilea and as La Ciesca in Puccini's comedy Gianni Schicchi. She sang as the Woodpecker, Forester’s Wife and the Grasshopper at the Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. Eleanor also performed Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus and Zerlina in Don Giovanni as a part of the Bloomsbury Festival in London, under musical director, Jessica Cottis.
As an oratorio soloist, Eleanor has sung the soprano solos in Handel’s Messiah at Brisbane City Hall with the Queensland Choir and the Mozart Requiem with St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir in Sydney. An experienced recitalist, Eleanor has sung in concert at Opera by the Lake for Opera Queensland, appeared as part of the Music on Sundays programme with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, hosted by Guy Noble, in Adelaide with the Italian Arts Society, hosted by Vincent Ciccarello and ‘Opera in the Paddock’ in Armidale NSW. Internationally, Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theatres with Australian International Productions performing in concert and opera.
Eleanor is a grateful past recipient of a grant from the Ian Potter Cultural Society and the Wagner Society of NSW.
"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