Gil Rodriguez Scholarship: Opera de Baugé (2016)

Instrumental Scholarship for Voice Lessons - Worcester College, University of Oxford (2007)

Soprano Winner - Inaugural Let's Sing Competition - Bulgaria National Opera - Sofia (2022)

Soprano Winner - Concorso Internazionale Musica Sacra - Roma (2021)

Pawel Sztompke - Radio Recital Prize (Konkurs imeni Iwony Borowickiej) Operetta Competition -Krakow (2020)

Youngest Finalist - Association of English Speakers and Singers Competition - London (2009)

orfeo.com.pl/czarodziejski-flet-na-koszykach (2023)

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www.forumopera.com/spectacle/smetana-la-fianc… (2023)

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A convincingly sexy Musetta - Owen Davies - http://playstosee.com/la-boheme-3/ (2015)

actress Danae Eleni gives a more serious and convincing performance as Gariné, sincerely depicting the plight of a young lady who wants to act despite her father’s disapproval - Josephine Ababio - http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/review-garine-arcola-theatre/ (2015)

Danae Eleni (Gariné) impressed in her lovely entrance aria, her attractive soprano dusky in its lower register - Mark Pullinger - https://bachtrack.com/review-garine-tchouhadjian-pasapian-grimeborn-arcola-august-2015 (2015)

Danae Eleni delivered the title role with winning conviction - Mark Valencia - http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/reviews/garin-arcola-theatre_38538.html (2015)

Eleni exemplified Despina’s irrepressible spirits with a sparkling performance, not milking the comedy of her disguises as the doctor and the notary any more than necessary - Curtis Rogers- http://seenandheard-international.com/2015/05/world-war-two-setting-for-oxfords-cosi-fan-tutte/ (2015)

The real scene-stealers, though, were Danae Eleni’s feisty Despina and Donald Maxwell’s wily Alfonso. Eleni was a delight; vivacious and mischievous, with a glorious voice to match, and her comic talents really shone when she was disguised as a notary -Nicola Lisle - http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/theatre/theatre/reviews/12937638.Review___Cosi_Fan_Tutte___New_Theatre__Oxford/ (2015)

subtle, alive, theatrical soloist... subtle in her shading of words - Andrew Stewart - http://timbenjamin.com/reviews/purcell_radius_211009/ (2009)

Anglo-Greek Lyric Soprano Danae Eleni is the winner of the 2021 Concorso Musica Sacra in Rome, and will tour as a soloist for the Messiah in 2022 to Italy, Greece, Romania and the Czech Republic. Earlier this season, Danae made her role debut as Mimì at the Jerash Festival in Jordan, made debuts in gala performances in Canari & Barcelona, and a role debut as Donna Elvira Don Giovanni with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra in Hungary. Danae is an ambassador for contemporary music and music education, recently co-founding the online international NexTus Festival, and lecturing in “Composition for Solo Voice” at Yale-NUS, Singapore. Danae is currently researching 19th century Greek songs for an upcoming recording and recital tour. Danae was born in Bahrain, studied at the Royal College of Music and the University of Oxford, and now lives in Warsaw.

In December 2020 Danae won the Pawel Sztompke Radio Prize at the International Operetta Competition - Iwona Borowicka, in Krakow. Future plans include: Mimì La Bohème (Warsaw); Valencienne La Veuve Joyeuse and Annina La Traviata (Baugé). Before moving to Warsaw, Danae made her role debut as Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro and re-interpreted the character in a contemporary look at women’s rights in Brignall’s Roles: Susanna (Metta Theatre), in the V&A’s Raphael Gallery. In February 2020 Danae led opera workshops in Bosnia with English Pocket Opera Company.

Opera credits include: Mimì La bohème (Jerash Festival); Donna Elvira Don Giovanni (Opera Pannonica/Szeged Symphony Orchestra); Sophie Der Rosenkavalier (Fulham Opera); Drusilla, Poppea (cover) L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Opera de Baugé); Maria West Side Story Suites (Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra); Adina (cover) L’elisir d’amore (New Generation Festival, Florence); Ilia Idomeneo; Musetta La bohème (Arcola Theatre) & the title role in Dikran Tchouhadjian’sGariné (UK première).

Concert credits include: Bach Kantate 80; Mass in D; Brahms Deutsche Requiem (Manama Singers); Britten's Les Illuminations (Crossing Borders Festival, Brighton); Handel Jephtha; Messiah; Quando sperasti o core; Tu fedel, tu constante; 9 Deutsche Arien; Haydn Harmoniemesse; Mozart A Berenice… Sol nascente K70 (61c); Exultate Jubilate; Requiem; Vesperae Solemnae; Pergolesi Stabat Mater; Poulenc Gloria at LSO St Luke’s; Vivaldi Gloria; Nulla in Mundo pax sincera; Sark Opera Festival; Purcell Room; St John’s Smith Square; Blenheim Palace; and solo recitals across four continents including Bahrain, Berlin, Edinburgh, Jüterbog, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Warsaw.

Danae read Psychology, Philosophy, Physiology and Phonetics at Worcester College
(Oxford) and studied Voice at the Royal College of Music (London). Passionate about education and contemporary music, Danae was soprano-in-residence for the 2nd International Composer/Performer Festival (Athens), and is a Guest Lecturer in Voice at Yale-NUS (Singapore) and Oxford University. She has led workshops for Garsington Opera Education, Baseless Fabric, and across the UK and the Middle East. Danae has also performance-lectured on Maths and Music for “Maths Teams”, a charity making Mathematics more popular and inclusive. As a storyteller and performance artist, Danae has performed for the Malala Fund and the Young Muslim Writers’ Awards.

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