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. In Australia Eleanor has performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra. Recent engagements include Soprano Soloist in Messiah at Brisbane City Hall with the Queensland 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, and Teresa La Rocca, hosted by Vincent Ciccarello. In Sydney and in Melbourne Eleanor sang with Australia's national company, Opera Australia and she has been a soloist at St Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney. In Canberra, Eleanor was Mrs Fairfax in the Australian Premiere of Michael Berkeley's chamber opera Jane Eyre (libretto by David Malouf). She also sang the role of Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus at the Llewellyn Hall. In Armidale NSW Eleanor was seen at ‘Opera in the Paddock', and in Melbourne she sang in concert with the Heidelberg Choral Society.
Internationally, Eleanor has toured to China, representing Australia as part of a cultural exchange performing Opera Gala Concerts, and as Flora in La Traviata with Australian International Productions, touring many Chinese Poly Theaters. In the UK Eleanor sang at Dorset Opera Festival and Grange Park Opera and returned to Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland, singing as L'innocente in L'Arlesiana by Cilea and as La Ciesca in Puccini's comedy Gianni Schicchi. Eleanor performed in London recently including a Prom Concert with the Tait Memorial Trust, featuring Tenor Stuart Skelton and and in recital as well as Opera, for Wexford Festival Opera. 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.
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, Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Flora in La Travaita, 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 and many more.
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, Handel’s Messiah and WA Mozart's Requiem as well as his 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.
Internationally, Eleanor has toured to China, representing Australia as part of a cultural exchange performing Opera Gala Concerts, and as Flora in La Traviata with Australian International Productions, touring many Chinese Poly Theaters. In the UK Eleanor sang at Dorset Opera Festival and Grange Park Opera and returned to Wexford Festival Opera in Ireland, singing as L'innocente in L'Arlesiana by Cilea and as La Ciesca in Puccini's comedy Gianni Schicchi. Eleanor performed in London recently including a Prom Concert with the Tait Memorial Trust, featuring Tenor Stuart Skelton and and in recital as well as Opera, for Wexford Festival Opera. 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.
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, Count Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Flora in La Travaita, 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 and many more.
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, Handel’s Messiah and WA Mozart's Requiem as well as his 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