SOPRANO
Eleanor Lyons
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GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
Australian soprano Eleanor Lyons studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before joining the Mariinsky Academy for Young Opera Singers in St. Petersburg and pursuing her studies further at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
Early on in her career Eleanor Lyons sang the role of Anne Truelove in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Hungarian State Opera, where she later sang Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème. After making her highly acclaimed debut as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Opera Australia in Sydney, she went on to appear at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent as both Mimì and Gretchen in a stage adaptation of Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust. As Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio, she made her house debut at the Semperoper Dresden under the direction of David Afkham.
Equally sought-after as an international concert soloist, Eleanor Lyons has appeared in Britten's War Requiem with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and the Noord Nederlands Orkest. She is in regular demand as soloist for Verdi's Messa da Requiem, having appeared at the Zurich Opera and Adelaide Festival in the production staged by Christian Spuck. Further collaborations have included Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Berio's Folk Songs with the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, Ravel's Chansons Madécasses and Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Mahler's Das klagende Lied with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young.
Eleanor Lyons maintains a special artistic connection with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, with whom she toured Europe in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the oratorio Christus am Ölberge and Missa Solemnis. The latter she also performed at the renowned French summer festival Les Corégies d’Orange and in her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons.
Further concert engagements include her debut with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, Bruckner’s Psalm 150 with the Vienna Symphony in the Vienna Musikverein, Mahler's Second Symphony with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, and with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Eleanor Lyons could be heard for the first time as Freia in concert performances of Wagner’s Das Rheingold with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, while at the Queensland Opera in Brisbane she gave her awaited debut in the title role of Dvořák’s Rusalka.
Highlights of the previous season include Leonore in concert performances of Beethoven's Fidelio with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, Britten's Les Illuminations with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the Rundfunksinfonie-Orchester Berlin, Poulenc's Stabat Mater with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Rotterdam Philharmonic. Furthermore she was a soloist in Mahler’s Eighth Symphony with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and in Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, both with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra as well as in a staged version with the Insula Orchestra in France.
Projects in the current season include her debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and with the Munich Philharmonic in Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42: Wie der Hirsch schreit and Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust. In the Beethoven Year 2027, Eleanor Lyons will appear again in the Ninth Symphony with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, while on the opera stage she returns to the Semperoper Dresden as Leonore (Fidelio) in a revival of Christine Mielitz’s now legendary production. She will also make her debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in Britten’s War Requiem, accompanied by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra.
To date, Eleanor Lyons has worked with conductors such as David Afkham, Marin Alsop, Marco Armiliato, Dennis Russell Davies, Iván Fischer, Thomas Hengelbrock, Philippe Herreweghe, Marie Jacquot, Ingo Metzmacher, Andris Nelsons, Petr Popelka, Michael Schønwandt, Lahav Shani, Aziz Shokhakimov, Kazuki Yamada and Simone Young.
2026 | 2027
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DISCOGRAPHY
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Verity Wingate, Eleanor Lyons, Christina Gansch (soprano), Štěpánka Pučálková, Yajie Zhang (alto), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Rafael Fingerlos (baritone), David Steffens (bass)
Wiener Singverein, Wiener Sängerknaben, Tonkünstler-Orchester
Conductor: Yutaka Sado
Label: Tonkünstler-Orchester | 2026
Ludwig v. Beethoven: Christus am Ölberge
Eleanor Lyons, Sebastian Kohlhepp, Thomas E. Bauer
Orchestre des Champs Élysées | Collegium Vocale Gent
Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe
Label: Phi | 2022
CALENDAR
Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka
Eleanor Lyons, Rusalka
Rosario La Spina, The Prince
Eva Kong, The Duchess
Warwick Fyfe, Vodnik the Water King
Ashlyn Tymms, Jezibaba
Maia Andrews, First Wood Sprite
Eleanor Greenwood, Second Wood Sprite
Shikara Ringdahl, Third Wood Sprite
Shaun Brown, The Gamekeeper
Carlos Bárcenas, The Hunter
Aylish Ryan, The Kitchen-hand
Vladimir Fanshil, Conductor
Sarah Giles, Director
Charles Davis, Set Designer
Renée Mulder, Costume Designer
Paul Jackson, Lighting Designer
David Bergman, Video Designer & Content Creator
Eugene Lynch, Assistant Director
Opera Queensland Chorus
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETS
Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka
Eleanor Lyons, Rusalka
Rosario La Spina, The Prince
Eva Kong, The Duchess
Warwick Fyfe, Vodnik the Water King
Ashlyn Tymms, Jezibaba
Maia Andrews, First Wood Sprite
Eleanor Greenwood, Second Wood Sprite
Shikara Ringdahl, Third Wood Sprite
Shaun Brown, The Gamekeeper
Carlos Bárcenas, The Hunter
Aylish Ryan, The Kitchen-hand
Vladimir Fanshil, Conductor
Sarah Giles, Director
Charles Davis, Set Designer
Renée Mulder, Costume Designer
Paul Jackson, Lighting Designer
David Bergman, Video Designer & Content Creator
Eugene Lynch, Assistant Director
Opera Queensland Chorus
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka
Eleanor Lyons, Rusalka
Rosario La Spina, The Prince
Eva Kong, The Duchess
Warwick Fyfe, Vodnik the Water King
Ashlyn Tymms, Jezibaba
Maia Andrews, First Wood Sprite
Eleanor Greenwood, Second Wood Sprite
Shikara Ringdahl, Third Wood Sprite
Shaun Brown, The Gamekeeper
Carlos Bárcenas, The Hunter
Aylish Ryan, The Kitchen-hand
Vladimir Fanshil, Conductor
Sarah Giles, Director
Charles Davis, Set Designer
Renée Mulder, Costume Designer
Paul Jackson, Lighting Designer
David Bergman, Video Designer & Content Creator
Eugene Lynch, Assistant Director
Opera Queensland Chorus
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka
Eleanor Lyons, Rusalka
Rosario La Spina, The Prince
Eva Kong, The Duchess
Warwick Fyfe, Vodnik the Water King
Ashlyn Tymms, Jezibaba
Maia Andrews, First Wood Sprite
Eleanor Greenwood, Second Wood Sprite
Shikara Ringdahl, Third Wood Sprite
Shaun Brown, The Gamekeeper
Carlos Bárcenas, The Hunter
Aylish Ryan, The Kitchen-hand
Vladimir Fanshil, Conductor
Sarah Giles, Director
Charles Davis, Set Designer
Renée Mulder, Costume Designer
Paul Jackson, Lighting Designer
David Bergman, Video Designer & Content Creator
Eugene Lynch, Assistant Director
Opera Queensland Chorus
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka
Eleanor Lyons, Rusalka
Rosario La Spina, The Prince
Eva Kong, The Duchess
Warwick Fyfe, Vodnik the Water King
Ashlyn Tymms, Jezibaba
Maia Andrews, First Wood Sprite
Eleanor Greenwood, Second Wood Sprite
Shikara Ringdahl, Third Wood Sprite
Shaun Brown, The Gamekeeper
Carlos Bárcenas, The Hunter
Aylish Ryan, The Kitchen-hand
Vladimir Fanshil, Conductor
Sarah Giles, Director
Charles Davis, Set Designer
Renée Mulder, Costume Designer
Paul Jackson, Lighting Designer
David Bergman, Video Designer & Content Creator
Eugene Lynch, Assistant Director
Opera Queensland Chorus
Queensland Symphony Orchestra
CONTACT
Representation: World (ex. Australia)
- Alexander Brunner
- +43 (0)5 06 80-011
- brunner@machreich-artists.com
- und Press enquiries & artist material | Saul Rigg
- +43 (0)5 06 80-010
- rigg@machreich-artists.com
