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Eleanor Lyons

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BIOGRAPHY

"We have kept for the end the shining soprano of the Australian Eleanor Lyons, whose means are almost reminiscent of those of Gundula Janowitz in her best years. A straight and powerful voice, capable of the most delicate nuances, with seemingly unlimited highs." Pierre Delgott | Resmusica

The Australian soprano Eleanor Lyons studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with Elena Obraztsova, Barry Ryan and Viktoria Dodoka, among others, 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. She is a recipient of the prestigious Vienna State Opera Award of the Australian Opera Foundation.

At the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest, Eleanor Lyons sang the role of Anne Truelove in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and later Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème. She made her highly acclaimed debut as Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni at Opera Australia in Sydney and in a concert performance at the Jinji Lake Concert Hall in Suzhou (China), while at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp and Ghent she appeared on stage as both Mimì and Gretchen, in a stage adaptation of Schumann's Szenen aus Goethes Faust.

As a sought-after concert singer, Eleanor Lyons has appeared in Britten's War Requiem with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra conducted by Philippe Herreweghe and the Noord Nederlands Orkest conducted by Stefan Ashbury, and is in regular demand as soloist for Verdi's Messa da Requiem, notably in a Zurich Opera production staged by Christian Spuck as part of the Adelaide Festival 2023 and at the Zurich Opera House. Other concert collaborations have included Gustav Mahler's 4th Symphony and Luciano Berio's Folk Songs with the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, Maurice Ravel's Chansons Madécasses and Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, and Gustav Mahler's Das klagende Lied and Beethoven's Fidelio (in concert) with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young.

Eleanor Lyons maintains a special collaboration with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, with whom she toured Europe for both Beethoven's oratorio Christus am Ölberge and his Missa Solemnis. She also made her critically acclaimed debut with the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony under Dennis Russell Davies and celebrated her first appearance at the Vienna Musikverein in Bruckner's Psalm 150 with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Petr Popelka. At the 2022 Festival Les Chorégies d'Orange, she appeared as soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under John Nelson as part of the French Bastille Day celebrations.

Projects in the current season include Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under Kazuki Yamada, Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 "Lobgesang" with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Marie Jacquot, Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, a New Year's Concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem and Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" once more with the Balthasar Neumann Choir & Ensemble. Eleanor Lyons can be heard for the first time as Freia in two concert performances of Das Rheingold with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young.

On the recital stage, Eleanor Lyons regularly collaborates with pianist Stanislav Soloviev, devoting herself primarily to the repertoire of Sergei Rachmaninov and his contemporaries.

2023/2024

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DISCOGRAPHY

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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

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VIDEOS

CALENDAR

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture from "Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus" op. 43
James Ledger: The Last Thing (World Premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 D minor, op. 125

Sara Macliver, soprano
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Ashlyn Tymms, mezzo-soprano
Paul O’Neill, tenor
Samuel Dundas, bass

WASO Chorus
UWA Symphonic Chorus
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETS

Ludwig van Beethoven: Overture from "Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus" op. 43
James Ledger: The Last Thing (World Premiere)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 D minor, op. 125

Sara Macliver, soprano
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Ashlyn Tymms, mezzo-soprano
Paul O’Neill, tenor
Samuel Dundas, bass

WASO Chorus
UWA Symphonic Chorus
Alpesh Chauhan, conductor

FURTHER INFORMATION & TICKETS
 

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IN FOCUS

ELEANOR LYONS returns to Sydney Opera House
16Nov2023
ELEANOR LYONS returns to Sydney Opera House

Eleanor Lyons returns to Sydney Opera House for her Wagnerian debut in Das Rheingold.

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ELEANOR LYONS in Monte-Carlo, Vienna and Milan
24Sep2023
ELEANOR LYONS in Monte-Carlo, Vienna and Milan

Eleanor Lyons as guest soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Wiener Symphoniker and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano

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ELEANOR LYONS performing Verdi's Requiem in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent
27Apr2023
ELEANOR LYONS performing Verdi's Requiem in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent

After her acclaimed debut at the Adelaide Festival as soloist in Verdi's Requiem, Eleanor Lyons can now be heard with this work also on three consecutive evenings in Brussels, Ghent and Antwerp.

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