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 as a young singer in Ireland at the Opera Festival in Wexford, in Statkowski's unknown Polish Opera Maria. Recently Eleanor has performed with Opera Queensland at 'Opera by the Lake', the QSO as part of their 'Music On Sundays' programme and with the Queensland Choir for 'Sounds of the Season'. Eleanor toured to China in 2017, representing Australia with Australian International Productions, as part of an cultural exchange. She was seen at 'Opera in the Paddock' in New South Wales, and in concert with Heidelberg Choral Society - Victoria. She performed in London for a Prom Concert with the Tait Memorial Trust, featuring Stuart Skelton and in recital for Wexford Festival Opera 2017. Eleanor sang as Mercedes in Carmen for Carmen in Concert with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.
Eleanor has sung various roles including 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, Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Flora in La Travaita, the roles of Olga and Larina, both from Eugene Onegin, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Der Komponist from Ariadne auf Naxos, the roles of Siebel and Marthe in Faust, excerpts from Cavalleria Rusticana and many more. In Brisbane Eleanor performed as Idamante in Idomeneo with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as part of the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School, and was seen in concert for the friends of Opera Queensland. In 2016 Eleanor toured Chinese Poly Theaters for the New Year Gala in Yantai and thereafter in 18 other Chinese Cities.
In the UK Eleanor sang roles at Dorset Opera Festival and Grange Park Opera and returned to Wexford Festival Opera many times in Ireland, 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. She sang with Australia's national company, Opera Australia, in Sydney and in Melbourne, and has been a soloist at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney and Sydney's Town Hall and Concourse.
Eleanor was Mrs Fairfax in the Australian Premiere of Michael Berkeley's chamber opera Jane Eyre (libretto by David Malouf) in Canberra Australia. She also sang the role of Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Llewellyn Hall.
A keen concert singer, highlights of Eleanor’s concert work include JS Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Handel’s Messiah and WA Mozart's music written for a play, Thamos, König in Ägypten.
Eleanor is a grateful past recipient of an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant. In 2015, she was the winner of the Australasian Opera Competition at the Sydney Eisteddfod and was awarded a prize from the Wagner Society of NSW.
Eleanor has sung various roles including 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, Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Flora in La Travaita, the roles of Olga and Larina, both from Eugene Onegin, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Der Komponist from Ariadne auf Naxos, the roles of Siebel and Marthe in Faust, excerpts from Cavalleria Rusticana and many more. In Brisbane Eleanor performed as Idamante in Idomeneo with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra as part of the Lisa Gasteen National Opera School, and was seen in concert for the friends of Opera Queensland. In 2016 Eleanor toured Chinese Poly Theaters for the New Year Gala in Yantai and thereafter in 18 other Chinese Cities.
In the UK Eleanor sang roles at Dorset Opera Festival and Grange Park Opera and returned to Wexford Festival Opera many times in Ireland, 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. She sang with Australia's national company, Opera Australia, in Sydney and in Melbourne, and has been a soloist at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney and Sydney's Town Hall and Concourse.
Eleanor was Mrs Fairfax in the Australian Premiere of Michael Berkeley's chamber opera Jane Eyre (libretto by David Malouf) in Canberra Australia. She also sang the role of Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Llewellyn Hall.
A keen concert singer, highlights of Eleanor’s concert work include JS Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Handel’s Messiah and WA Mozart's music written for a play, Thamos, König in Ägypten.
Eleanor is a grateful past recipient of an Ian Potter Cultural Trust Grant. In 2015, she was the winner of the Australasian Opera Competition at the Sydney Eisteddfod and was awarded a prize from 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