Eleanor Burke is an award-winning English/Irish director and the Founder of Green Opera, the world’s first environmentally-sustainable opera company. She recently made her Royal Opera House debut with Martinů’s Larmes de couteau and her La Monnaie debut with Eleanor Burke/Logan Lopez Gonzalez, 555: Verlaine en prison .

At 23, Eleanor became the youngest director accepted into the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. In 2024, she was selected by Robert Carsen as one of three recipients of the Grand Prix de l’Académie des Beaux-Arts. She is a semi-finalist in the 2025 European Opera-Directing Prize and a two-time Off West End Award winner for The Cunning Little Vixen (2023) and Eugene Onegin (2025), both with Hampstead Garden Opera.

Her upcoming productions include the world-premiere of Jane Eyre by John Joubert (Arcola Theatre/Green Opera). Other recent productions include 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 2024/25 season, Eleanor is Staff 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 and has assisted directors including Christof Loy, Robert Carsen, and Damiano Michieletto. She has worked with companies such as Les Arts Florissants, Opéra-Comique, English National Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Theater an der Wien, and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen.

She holds a First in English Literature from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was a choral scholar, and is an Artist Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She is currently training as an Intimacy Coordinator with IDC and speaks English, German, and French.