Australian soprano Eleanor Lyons has established herself as a Beethoven and Mahler specialist, with extensive performances and recordings of their works central to her artistic profile. Admired for the breadth
of her musicianship and expressive clarity in lyric-dramatic repertoire, Lyons studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music before continuing her training in Russia and the United Kingdom.

Eleanor’s operatic work includes her Semperoper Dresden debut as Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio, a role to which she returns in the Beethoven Year 2027, and appearances in Australia as Dvořák’s Rusalka and Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Other roles include Anne Trulove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress and Mimì in Puccini’s La bohème at the Hungarian State Opera, Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for Opera Australia, and Mimì and Gretchen in a staged adaptation of Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust with Flemish Opera.

On the concert platform Lyons’ close association with Beethoven and Mahler is particularly prominent, alongside major vocal repertoire including Britten’s War Requiem, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Bruckner’s Te Deum and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem. She has collaborated with orchestras including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Radio Symphony Orchestra Wien, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Concertgebouw Orchestra, and with conductors including Philippe Herreweghe, Andris Nelsons, Iván Fischer, Lahav Shani and Simone Young.