Eleanor Burke is an award-winning English/Irish director and Founder of Green Opera, the UK’s first environmentally sustainable opera company. She recently made her Royal Opera House debut with Bohuslav Martinů’s Larmes de couteau and 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 supporting emerging talent. Recently featured as a “Rising Star” in Gramophone Magazine, she was the youngest director accepted onto the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. She has won Off West End Awards for Eugene Onegin and The Cunning Little Vixen and was a semi-finalist in the 2025 European Opera Directing Prize. Her most recent project is the world-premiere of John Joubert’s Jane Eyre for Green Opera and the Arcola Theatre. Upcoming work includes Turandot (Opera Holland Park) and a European tour of Eleanor Burke/Logan Lopez Gonzalez, 555: Verlaine en Prison, previously been performed La Monnaie and the Royal Opera House.