Award-winning Singer 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 made her start in Ireland at the Opera Festival in Wexford, in Statkowski's unknown Polish Opera, Maria. In Australia she has performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra. Recent engagements include Messiah at Brisbane City Hall with the Queensland Choir, Mozart Requiem with St Andrew’s Cathedral Choir, Opera by the Lake for Opera Queensland, and appearing as part of the Music on Sundays programme with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, hosted by Guy Noble. Eleanor performed in Adelaide with the Italian Arts Society, hosted by Vincent Ciccarello. In Sydney and in Melbourne Eleanor sang with Australia's national company, Opera Australia. In Armidale NSW, Eleanor was seen at Opera in the Paddock, and in Melbourne she sang in concert with the Heidelberg Choral Society. In Canberra, Eleanor was Mrs Fairfax in the Australian Premiere of Michael Berkeley's chamber opera Jane Eyre at the Street Theatre and sang Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Lewellyn hall.
Internationally, Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theaters at various times with Australian International Productions. In the UK Eleanor sang at Grange Park Opera and the Dorset Opera Festival, and she returned to Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland many times, singing as L'innocente in L'Arlesiana by Cilea and as La Ciesca in Puccini's comedy Gianni Schicchi. She sang at the Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. Eleanor has performed numerous roles in opera productions as a part of the Bloomsbury Festival in London, and Goodenough College.
Roles performed include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Charlotte from Werther, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Endimione in Cavalli's La Calisto, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Flora in La Travaita, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Rosina and Der Komponist.
A keen concert singer, highlights of Eleanor’s concert Oratorio work include JS Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, WA Mozart's Requiem as well as his music written for a play, Thamos, König in Ägypten.
She was a winner of the National Opera Competition at the Sydney Eisteddfod and was awarded a prize from the Wagner Society of NSW. Eleanor is a grateful past recipient of a study grant from the Wagner Society of NSW, and the Ian Potter Cultural Society.
Internationally, Eleanor has toured Chinese Poly Theaters at various times with Australian International Productions. In the UK Eleanor sang at Grange Park Opera and the Dorset Opera Festival, and she returned to Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland many times, singing as L'innocente in L'Arlesiana by Cilea and as La Ciesca in Puccini's comedy Gianni Schicchi. She sang at the Ryedale Festival in North Yorkshire in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen. Eleanor has performed numerous roles in opera productions as a part of the Bloomsbury Festival in London, and Goodenough College.
Roles performed include Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Charlotte from Werther, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, Endimione in Cavalli's La Calisto, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Flora in La Travaita, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Rosina and Der Komponist.
A keen concert singer, highlights of Eleanor’s concert Oratorio work include JS Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, WA Mozart's Requiem as well as his music written for a play, Thamos, König in Ägypten.
She was a winner of the National Opera Competition at the Sydney Eisteddfod and was awarded a prize from the Wagner Society of NSW. Eleanor is a grateful past recipient of a study grant from the Wagner Society of NSW, and the Ian Potter Cultural Society.
"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