Winner of a 2023 Carole Rees Award from The Mastersingers, Scottish Soprano Eleanor Dennis is a graduate of the Royal College of Music’s International Opera School and a former Harewood Artist at English National Opera. She sang 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 Hänsel und Gretel and Fiordiligi for Opera Holland Park; and Countess Almaviva and Liù Turandot for Scottish Opera.

With BBC Concert Orchestra, she has recorded The Dancing Master, which won a BBC Music Magazine Award, on Resonus Classics, and Cellier’s Captain Billy, Ford’s Mr Jericho and Sullivan’s The Light of the World on Dutton Epoch; whilst with The Mozartists, she has recorded Mozart in London, available on Signum. Engagements during 2024 further include Eva Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for Saffron Opera Group and both Freia Das Rheingold and Gerhilde Die Walküre for Longborough Festival Opera.

Previously for ENO: Penelope Gloriana, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ofglen The Handmaid’s Tale, Countess Almaviva The Marriage of Figaro and Woglinde The Rhinegold

Upcoming for ENO: The Turn of the Screw