Ellen Leather

Fach: Dramatic Soprano / Zwischenfach

Roles include: Helmwige, Die Walküre (Wagner), Vitellia, La clemenza di Tito (Mozart), Contessa, Le Nozze di Figaro, (Mozart), Frasquita, Carmen (Bizet), Grittly, Le 66 (Offenbach) Rita, Rita (Donizetti), Victorian, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Todd), Mrs Gobineau, The Medium (Menotti).

For season 2022 / 23 she is preparing Elettra, Idomeneo (Mozart), Mutter, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) Gutrune, Götterdämmerung (Wagner) and studying Brünnhilde from Siegfried and Die Walküre (Wagner).

In season 2020 / 2021 she prepared for Konzert Theater Bern Blümenmädchen in Wagner’s Parsifal and a Rheintöchter and Brünnhilde for the family concert “Das Gold gehört in den Rhein”.

She has studied singing with Fr. Professorin Norma Sharp (HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin), Margaret Haggart (ENO / WNO) and Professor David Wakeham (Durham University) has participated in Masterclasses and consultations with KS Deborah Polaski, Professor Lorraine DiSimone and Dr. Agnes Zwierko.

She holds a first-class Master of Information Systems and was on the Dean’s Honour List for The School of Engineering at The University of Melbourne in 2016.