Winner of a 2023 Carole Rees Award from Mastersingers, 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, for whom she has sung the roles of Penelope (in Britten’s Gloriana), Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw), Ofglen (Poul Ruders’s The Handmaid’s Tale), Countess Rosina Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Woglinde (Das Rhinegold).

Eleanor performed the role of Miranda in Sir Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master at Buxton International Festival, and elsewhere her engagements have included Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for Aldeburgh and Grange festivals; Miss Jessel (The Turn of the Screw) for Opera North; The Witch (Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel) and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) for Opera Holland Park; Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) and Liù (Turandot) for Scottish Opera; and Eva (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) for Saffron Opera Group. For Longborough Festival Opera, she sang as Freia in Das Rheingold and as Gerhilde (and Sieglinde) in Die Walküre.

Eleanor made her BBC Proms debut singing Beethoven’s Symphony No 9 with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. With the BBC Concert Orchestra she has recorded The Dancing Master—which won a BBC Music Magazine Award—for Resonus Classics, and François Cellier’s Captain Billy, Ernest Ford’s Mr Jericho and Arthur Sullivan’s The Light of the World for Dutton Epoch. Eleanor sang Stanford’s Stabat mater at King’s College, Cambridge, and was broadcast on Friday Night Is Music Night from Snape Maltings.