Eleanor Jean Greenwood is an Australian soprano best known as an

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singer. She is a graduate of the

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Opera Studio in

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, England.

Career

Her debut with Wexford Festival Opera was as Pachole in ''Maria'' Polish Opera by Roman Statkowski. She was a mezzo soprano and has performed roles including Hänsel in '' Hänsel und Gretel'', Rosina in '' Il barbiere di Siviglia'', Count Orlofsky in '' Die Fledermaus'', La Ciesca in ''

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'', Endimione in '' La Calisto'', The Wife in '' Paradise Moscow'' (Cheryomushki), L'Enfant in ''

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'' and Zerlina in ''

Don Giovanni ''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...

''. She has performed roles in '' The Cunning Little Vixen'' by Janáček. She is the sister of Australian musicologist Andrew Greenwood.

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Eleanor Greenwood
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Eleanor Living people 21st-century Australian women opera singers Operatic mezzo-sopranos Year of birth missing (living people)