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Danae Eleni brings to her music the same spirit and enthusiasm which she brings to life. Whether she is singing an operatic aria or a piece of English and Greek folk music, her love of music and connection with her audience shines through. In the next few months she is performing in Athens and across the Middle East. She has just finished the exciting new Associated Performers Studio 3 month intensive Opera course in Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.
Danae frequently performs with her pianist brother, Kimon, and together they have released their debut album "Love's Philosophy", featuring some little-known 19th Century Greek Art songs. As a duo they have given numerous charity concerts across the UK and are looking forward to upcoming recitals in London, Kent, Athens and the Middle East. The close relationship between brother and sister gives their performances together something even more special.
Danae's career in more detail
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Danae recently sang the title role in Open Door Opera production of Ravel's The Enchanted Child at the Edinburgh Festival and St John's Smith Square, London. She toured with Opera Anywhere as Lucy in Menotti's The Telephone, with a publicity performance inside a Vodafone store. Other recent roles have included Suor Genovieffa (Suor Angelica), Micaela (Carmen), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Damigella (L'incoronazione di Poppea) and First Lady, Pamina and Papagena in Die Zauberfloete. She has worked on the first modern realisations of two Baroque operas, performing Emilia (Scarlattis Marco Attilio Regolo) and as Laodice in the earlier stages of research for (Hasse's Il Siroe) for Ensemble Serse.
Danae has also performed scenes as Maria Stuarda (Maria Stuarda) for the Oxford and Cambridge Music Club; as Anne Trulove (The Rake's Progress), Pamina (Die Zauberfloete) and Miss Wordsworth (Albert Herring) for London Opera Vocal at the National Opera Studio, UK, Susanna and Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Despina and Fiordiligi (Cosi Fan Tutte) under Marco Ozbic for Il Corpo Cantante, France.
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An established recital singer, Danae has performed recently in St George's, Hanover Square; St Sepulchre's-without-Newgate and St Dunstans-in-the-West (London), and in several Oxford Colleges for the New Chamber Opera. She recently performed Mozart's "Exultate Jubilate" and "A Berenice... sol nascente" with Cardiff Chamber Orchestra in aid of St Margaret's Church, Cardiff. In 2007 she premiered Satoko Doi's "Islanders" for the Leeds Lieder Festival and in 2008 Guy Newbury's "Adria" for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and ISIS music ensemble, Oxford. She will performing again in Edinburgh this summer, premiering Guy's new work "The Moon Song".
As part of her passion for bringing opera to a wider audience, Danae has
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been heavily involved in opera outreach. She most recently worked with Karen Gillingham and Hannah Conway and Garsington Opera on a successful project for primary schools in Oxfordshire, which was received with great enthusiasm by both children and teachers.
Much in demand as an oratorio soloist, recent performances include Orff's Carmina Burana, Mozart's Requiem, Brahms' Requiem, Elgar's Lux Christi, Vivaldi's Gloria and Britten's Ceremony of Carols. She has benefited from masterclasses and coaching from Teresa Cahill (TCM - London), James Bowman, Kostas Paschalis, Dimitris Yakas (National Opera - Athens) and Marco Ozbic (Teatro San Carlo - Naples). She currently enjoys studying with Ashley Stafford.
“Danae's recital made the evening. She slipped effortlessly from opera to folk songs and even jazz, sympathetically accompanied by her brother, Kimon. Her voice touches your heart„.
Guest at recital in Oxford in 2008. |
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