Eleanor Burke is an award-winning Anglo-Irish director and the Founder of Green Opera, the world’s first environmentally-sustainable opera company. She recently made her house debuts at the Royal Opera House and La Monnaie/DE MUNT with critically-acclaimed productions of Martinu Larmes de couteau and Eleanor Burke/Logan Lopez Gonzalez 555: Verlaine en prison. 

At 23, Eleanor was the youngest director ever accepted onto the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme (Royal Opera House, London). In February, she was selected by Robert Carsen, winner of the Grand Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts 2023/2024, as one of three young artists to share the prize fund. 

In the 2024/25 season, Eleanor directs new productions of Eugene Onegin (Hampstead Garden Opera, London), Rinaldo (Blossac Theater, Châtellerault), Don Giovanni (Saluzzo Opera Festival, Italy), and opera scenes at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, London.  

Other recent productions include The Cunning Little Vixen (Hampstead Garden Opera, Winner: Off West End Theatre Award), William Gardner/Matthew Green The Prisoner (Royal College of Music, Winner: Stephen Oliver Award), Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh/Emily Hazrati TIDE (Aldeburgh Festival), Jake Heggie At the Statue of Venus / Poulenc La Voix humaine (Green Opera, Arcola Theatre); Bluebeard’s Castle (Green Opera). 

In the 2024/25 season, Eleanor is Assistant Director for Eugene Onegin (Royal Opera House, dir. Ted Huffman), Tannhäuser (Wiener Staatsoper, dir. Lydia Steier) and Don Giovanni (Festival Aix-en-Provence, dir. Robert Icke). 

Eleanor was previously a Staff Director at Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach, Germany, and has worked on productions by Christof Loy, Robert Carsen, Ted Huffman, Damiano Michieletto, Tim Albery, and Jonathan Kent and with organisations including Les Arts Florissants, Opéra-Comique, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Opera Holland Park, English Touring Opera, English National Opera, Theater an der Wien, and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. 

She was awarded an Artists Fellowship 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. 

She speaks English, French and German.