This season Eleanor’s engagements include Beethoven’s Missa solemnis with Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mahler’s Second Symphony with Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Bruckner’s Te Deum at the Vienna Musikverein with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra under Lahav Shani, Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem in Paris, on tour and in Aarhus — as well as her eagerly awaited debut as Rusalka with Queensland Opera.
She is in high demand on major international concert stages: Britten’s War Requiem with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra; she is also among the female soloists regularly invited to perform Verdi’s Requiem. Other important engagements include Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony and Berio’s Folk Songs with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra conducted by Simone Young. Last season she toured Mahler’s Eighth symphony with the Tonkünstler Orchestra in under Yutaka Sado which was also recorded by Naxos.
Further notable appearances include Mahler’s Second Symphony with the Orchestre de Monte-Carlo, Teatro Regio Torino, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra; Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Britten’s Les Illuminations with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie; Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin; Poulenc’s Stabat Mater with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Erich Zeisl’s Requiem Ebraico in Vienna with the RSO Wien under Marin Alsop.
She enjoys a close artistic collaboration with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, with whom she has toured extensively performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Christus am Ölberge, and the Missa solemnis.
On the operatic stage fhe made her recent debut at the Semperoper Dresden as Leonore (Fidelio) under the baton of David Afkham, which she will reprise there in 2027. Among her early operatic engagements were Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress) and Mimì (La bohème) at the Hungarian State Opera, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) for Opera Australia, as well as appearances at the Vlaamse Opera as Mimì and Gretchen (Szenen aus Goethes Faust).
The Australian soprano studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before joining the Mariinsky Academy for Young Opera Singers in St Petersburg and continuing her training at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She is a recipient of the Vienna State Opera Award from the Australian Opera Foundation.
