Born in Canberra, Eleanor Greenwood made her professional debut as Mrs Fairfax with Stopera, in the Australian Premiere of Jane Eyre the chamber opera by Michael Berkley and David Malouf. Eleanor joined the Opera School at the Royal Academy of Music in 2007 and was the grateful recipient of the Alec Templeton Entrance Scholarship for 2007/08. In opera productions for Royal Academy Opera Eleanor has sung Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel under the baton of Sian Edwards, Endimione in La Calisto (Tony Legge) and the wife in ‘Paradise Moscow' (Dominic Wheeler). She also performed as cover Ernestina in Rossini’s L’occasione fa il Ladro.

In Royal Academy Opera Scenes as directed by Mr John Copley, Eleanor has sung selected excerpts as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Meg Page (Falstaff) and Minsk Woman in Flight by Jonathan Dove. In scenes directed by David Edwards; Eleanor has sung excerpts as Dorabella, Lucretia and with John Ramster, Arsemene in Serse and La Bergere in L’Enfant et les Sortileges.
Complete Roles performed elsewhere include Zerlina for Bloomsbury Opera, L'Enfant in L’Enfant et les Sortileges, Orlofsky under the baton of Shuya Okatsu, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi as directed by Anna Sweeney and Barbara Rucha. She holds a Master of Arts in Opera from the Royal Academy of Music in London and a Bachelor of Music - Performance, with First Class Honours from the Australian National University School of Music and has appeard as Mezzo Soloist at venues including Duntroon - Australia's Military College, with the RMC Band, Government House as hosted by Australia's Governor General, Leighton House in London and the Foundling Museum, London. Concert Performances include Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, WA Mozart's Solemn Vespers and Thamos, King of Egypt.

Eleanore can be contacted by sending an email to info@stopera.org.au

Above: Eleanor Greenwood as Mrs Fairfax, and Sara Carvalho as Adele in Jane Eyre.