Soprano Eleanor Pennell-Briggs trained as an oboist at the Royal College of Music and the Norwegian Academy of Music, and then as a singer at Trinity Laban and with Dennis O’Neill at the Wales International Academy of Voice. Notable performances include the Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 at Cadogan Hall, Handel’s Messiah at St John’s Smith Square, The Ultimate Opera Gala with Welsh National Opera Orchestra, and Mahler’s 8th Symphony with both the Orchestre National de Lille and the Cheltenham Music Festival. Eleanor has worked as principal or cover with companies such as the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Teatro Garibaldi (Sicily), Orchestre National de Lille, English Touring Opera and Philharmonie Luxembourg.
Eleanor was previously a member of the Royal Opera Chorus and during that time she covered the role of Barena in Janacek’s Jenufa. The 2025-26 season saw her join the chorus of English National Opera, perform Mozart’s Solemn Vespers at Cadogan Hall and Brahms’ Requiem at the Royal Festival Hall. For the 2026-27 season Eleanor will be enjoying maternity leave but will return for performances with North London Chorus and Highgate Choral Society, and covers the roles of Laetitia/Plaintiff in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Zoo/Trial by Jury for ENO.
British tenor John Gyeantey is gaining a reputation as a fine exponent of the bel canto repertoire. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Accademia Rossiniana, Pesaro. Previously he trained at the Royal College of Music and then the National Opera Studio as a Peter Moores Foundation Major Scholar. On the concert platform, he is sought after as a sensitive and versatile artist with performances taking him across the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Appearances include title roles in Acis and Galatea (St James’s Palace) and Thomas Arne’s Judgment of Paris (Wigmore Hall), Carmina Burana, Messiah, St Matthew Passion for Spanish TV, Mahler Das Klagende Lied (RFH), Haydn Creation (Cairo Opera House) and Haydn Stabat Mater recorded for Luxembourg Radio. His Rossini roles include Ramiro La Cenerentola (Oper Schloss Hallwyl); Norfolc Elisabetta Regina d’Inghilterra (English Touring Opera). Other roles include Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (Mid-Wales Opera), Camille de Rosillon The Merry Widow (Scottish Opera), Mime RhineGold (Birmingham Opera Company), and most recently Nemorino L’elisir d’amore (West Green House Opera and Anghiari Festival, Tuscany) and Police Buddy Blue for English National Opera.
John appears by kind permission of the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden.
Belfast-born baritone Malachy Frame was a Rising Star of the Enlightenment with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for 2023-25 and was Northern Ireland Opera’s Voice of 2016. Recent roles have included Figaro in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Marcello and Schaunard in Puccini’s La Bohème, March Hare/White Knight in Todd’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Leporello and Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Count Ceprano in Verdi’s Rigoletto and Aeneas in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
As a concert soloist, recent performances have included a Wigmore Hall debut singing Bach with the Gabrieli Consort, Bach’s St John Passion at the Barbican and Easter Oratorio in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Haydn’s Creation, Britten’s War Requiem, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Mass in B minor, Magnificat, and St Matthew Passion, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Handel’s Saul, Messiah, Theodora, and Alexander’s Feast, Vaughan-Williams’ Five Mystical Songs, and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast.
Highlights of the 2025-26 season include a debut at English National Opera in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Britten Sinfonia, and Bach’s St John Passion with the Monteverdi Choir. Malachy is also guest artistic director of early music ensemble Sestina.