Elinor Moran
Hailing from Stoke on Trent Elinor studied voice at Chetham’s School of Music and The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she won the Worshipful company of horners’ becker scholarship and the Tracey Chadwell memorial prize for contemporary song. Elinor has recently returned from singing with André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra as a soloist on his world tour and is currently an in demand concert and oratorio performer around the UK. She is also a regular guest entertainer on Cunard and a concert narrator and presenter for music in The Round and Ensemble 360.
Recent operatic roles include soprano soloist G&S galas (Tarantara at the Chichester Festival Theatre), Donna Irene the queen’s lace handkerchief (Operadellaluna), Casilda the gondoliers, Josephine HMS pinafore and Mabel Pirates of Penzance with the national Gilbert and Sullivan opera company on national tour. Mimi la boheme (in the Olivier award winning Operaupclose production at the Soho theatre and Charing cross theatre and tour), Violetta (Ouc Soho theatre/Tricycle theatre and tour), Sophie Werther (midsummer opera), Rosina the Barber of Seville (Ouc tour), Anna Don Giovanni (Ouc/Soho theatre), Mrs Bear-Crawford beginners (New commission, ROH Linbury theatre) Michaela Carmen (for EPOC at the Royal Albert Hall), Susanna the Marriage of Figaro (Opera la gozinère), Rusalka/Voran may night (Garsington opera), Rowan the little sweep Iinternational festival of Shannon). Elinor has been the recipient of a Garsington opera chorus award.
Elinor was a soloist on a Sony BMG recording “the best of Gilbert and Sullivan” which reached the top of the classical chart and can be heard on blossom street’s new Naxos recording of choral music by female composers “This day”.
As well as being a busy performer, Elinor is a highly regarded vocal teacher, workshop leader and animateur and sometimes director. She regularly works in learning and participation teams with such companies as RBO, ETO, Opera North, Snape, Garsington opera, Mahogany opera, Baseless fabric, Birmingham opera company, Music in the round and as far away as the Canadian children’s opera chorus in Toronto. She is part of the Royal ballet and Opera create and sing team creating resources for their national school’s project. Elinor currently teaches at Cheltenham Ladies College and Queen’s College, London.
She is the holder of a vocal foundation vocal first aid qualification and is an Estill master trainer candidate 2025. She regularly attends lectures and courses in the latest vocal pedagogy and its application, and in vocal anatomy and vocal rehabilitation.