"We have saved for last the radiant soprano of the Australian Eleanor Lyons, whose vocal means are almost reminiscent of those of Gundula Janowitz in her prime. A straight and powerful voice that is capable of the most delicate nuances and whose intensifications extend into the Height seems unlimited." Pierre Delgott | Resmusica

The Australian soprano Eleanor Lyons studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with, among others, Elena Obraztsova, Barry Ryan and Viktoria Dodoka and then perfected her skills at the Mariinsky Academy for Young Opera Singers in St. Petersburg and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She was also the winner of the Vienna State Opera Award from the Australian Opera Foundation.

Right at the beginning of her career, Eleanor Lyons sang the role of Anne Truelove in Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest and was subsequently heard there as Mimì in Puccini's La Bohème. She made her acclaimed role 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 she appeared at the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp and Ghent as both Mimì and also when Gretchen appeared on stage in a staged adaptation of Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust.

As a sought-after concert singer, Eleanor Lyons was heard in Britten's War Requiem with the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra under Philippe Herreweghe and the Noord Nederlands Orkest under Stefan Ashbury and regularly appears as a soloist for Verdi's Messa da Requiem - including one by Christian Spuck choreographed production at the Adelaide Festival 2023 and at the Zurich Opera House. Other concert collaborations include Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Berio's Folk Songs with the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, Ravel's Chansons Madécasses, Strauss's Four Last Songs with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, and Mahler's Das Klagede Lied with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young.

Eleanor Lyons has a special collaboration with Philippe Herreweghe and the Orchester des Champs Elysées, with whom she toured Europe for both Beethoven's oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives and his Missa Solemnis. She also made her highly acclaimed debut with the MDR Symphony Orchestra with Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony under Dennis Russell Davies and also appeared for the first time at the Vienna Musikverein in Bruckner's 150th Psalm with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Petr Popelka. Finally, at the Les Chorégies d'Orange festival, she appeared as a soloist in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis under John Nelson as part of the French National Day celebrations.

Recent concert engagements include Mahler's Second Symphony with the Orchester Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo under Kazuki Yamada, Mendelssohn's Lobgesang Symphony with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Marie Jacquot, Strauss' Four Last Songs with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and a New Year's Concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as Brahms' A German Requiem and Mendelssohn's Lobgesang with the Balthasar Neumann Choir & Ensemble under Thomas Hengelbrock. With the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Simone Young, Eleanor Lyons appeared for the first time as Freia in two concert performances of Wagner's Das Rheingold.

In the current season, Eleanor Lyons is making her debut with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España, where she will sing Leonore for the first time in two concert performances of Beethoven's Fidelio under the direction of David Afkham. In addition to a bel canto gala with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra in Ankara, Eleanor Lyons will also appear as a soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Orchester des Champs-Elysées under the direction of Philippe Herreweghe as part of a European tour. Britten's Les Illuminations including selected Mozart concert arias are on the program of a concert with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, while she will make her debut at the Turin Teatro Regio as a soloist in Mahler's Second Symphony under Aziz Shokhakimov. Two further debuts await Eleanor Lyons as a soloist in Dvořák's Stabat Mater with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and in Poulenc's Stabat Mater with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Kazuki Yamada. In Australia, she will sing Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra.

In the song field, this year Eleanor will give a recital at the Melbourne Recital Centre with chamber group Ensemble Liaison which will feature works by Schubert and Richard Strauss. She also regularly works with the pianist Stanislav Soloviev and primarily dedicates herself to the song work of Sergei Rachmaninoff and his contemporaries.