Eleanor Burke is an award-winning Anglo-Irish director and movement director, working internationally. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Green Opera, the world’s first environmentally-sustainable opera company. At 23, Eleanor became the youngest director ever accepted onto the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme (2022-24) at the Royal Opera House, London. For the Royal Opera this season , Eleanor will assist on a new production of Elektra, (Christof Loy/Antonio Pappano) and the premiere of George Benjamin’s Picture A Day Like This.

In 2023/24 she makes house debuts at the Royal Opera House, directing Martinu’s Les larmes de couteau at the Linbury Theatre and Opera Scenes on the main stage. She recently directed the premiere of her piece 555: Verlaine en Prison at La Monnaie/De Munt as well as the staged premiere of Judith Weir’s King Harald’s Saga for Waterperry Opera Festival, Oxford, and a critically-acclaimed production of Jake Heggie, At the Statue of Venus/ Poulenc, La Voix humaine at the Arcola Theatre, London.

Her production of The Cunning Little Vixen (Hampstead Garden Opera) won an Off West End Theatre Award. Other recent work includes William Gardner/Matthew Green The Prisoner (Royal Academy of Music); Bluebeard's Castle (Green Opera) and Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh/Emily Hazrati TIDE (Britten Pears Arts, Aldeburgh Festival).

Eleanor was previously a Staff Director at Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach and has worked with companies including Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera, English National Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater an der Wien, Teatro La Fenice and the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan. She was a Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and holds a First Class degree in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge where she was a choral scholar. 

Eleanor speaks English and German.