Eleanor is Director for these concert performances of Puccini’s Turandot with Opera Holland Park.

Conducted by Naomi Woo (Edgar 2024), Turandot continues the 2026 Season’s themes of deception and disguise, its heavily perfumed score the final expression of late romantic Italian opera’s fascination with the Far East. Director Eleanor Burke makes her much anticipated company debut with this concert staging, with a cast led by tenor José de Eça (Tosca 2024, Lucia di Lammermoor 2025, La fanciulla del West 2026) as Calaf, the unknown prince who must solve the riddles of the Ice Princess, Turandot, or lose his head. Last seen at Opera Holland Park in the role of Vivetta in L’arlesiana in 2019, soprano Fflur Wyn makes her role debut as Liù.