Scottish soprano Eleanor Dennis is a graduate of the Royal College of Music’s International Opera School and a former Harewood Artist at the English National Opera.
She is the winner of the Carole Rees Award in the 2023 Mastersingers Competition, an award given in support of the next generation of Wagner singers.
Recent appearances include Woglinde The Rheingold, Ofglen The Handmaid's Tale and Penelope Gloriana for the English National Opera; Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Aldeburgh and Grange Festivals and for the English National Opera; Contessa for Scottish Opera; Fiordiligi Così fan tutte for Opera Holland Park; Ginevra Ariodante for the Salzburger Landestheater; Miranda in Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master at the Buxton Festival and Miss Jessel The Turn of the Screw for Opera North.
On the concert platform, her engagements include Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (CBSO/Andrew Manze); Britten’s A Spring Symphony (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Cornelius Meister & BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ilan Volkov); Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Three Choirs Festival); Haydn’s Harmoniemesse (Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir András Schiff); Elgar’s Une Voix dans le Désert (CBSO/Andris Nelsons); Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins) and Beethoven’s Egmont (BBC Philharmonic/Juanjo Mena); Missa Solemnis (Three Choirs Festival); Christus am Ölberge (Bamberger Symphoniker/Rolf Beck); Symphony No. 9 (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Ryan Wigglesworth at the BBC Proms, Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España/David Afkham & RSNO/Thomas Sondergard).