Internationally acclaimed Greek soprano Eleni Calenos is capturing critics’ and audiences’ admiration for the clarity and warmth of her voice and her dignified characterizations.

Her operatic repertoire includes more than 30 roles, among them: Mimì (La Bohème), Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly), Tosca, Suor Angelica, Santuzza (Cavalleria rusticana), Nedda (I Pagliacci), Giorgetta (Il tabarro), Liù (Turandot), Giulietta (Giulietta e Romeo by Zandonai), the Countess (Le nozze di Figaro), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Hanna Glawari (The Merry Widow), Antonia (The Tales of Hoffmann), Desdemona (Otello), Medora (Il corsaro), Gilda (Rigoletto), L’Infante (Le Cid), Silvia (Zanetto), Micaëla (Carmen), Lia (L’Enfant prodigue), and Vee Talbot in Bruce Saylor’s contemporary opera Orpheus Descending.

She also created the role of Saida in the world premiere of the opera Schönerland by S. N. Eichberg, on the topic of refugees.

Ms. Calenos is equally accomplished in the oratorio and concert repertoire, having sung Verdi’s Requiem, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis, Handel’s Theodora, Mendelssohn’s Paulus, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Rachmaninov’s The Bells, Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Rutter’s Magnificat, Poulenc’s Gloria, among others.

She has collaborated with opera companies and symphony orchestras such as Glyndebourne, Wiesbaden Staatstheater, the Greek National Opera, Grand Teton Festival, Palm Beach Opera, Austin Opera, Tulsa Opera, Sarasota Opera, Opera Idaho, Opera Delaware, Opera Orlando, Shreveport Opera, Odyssey Opera, Mississippi Opera, Lancaster Symphony, MidAmerica Productions (Avery Fisher Hall/Lincoln Center), Opera Montana, Opera Santa Barbara, Orchestra Miami, Utah Festival Opera, Annapolis Opera, Madison Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Phoenicia Festival, Opera Company of Middlebury (VT), Evansville Philharmonic, LOFT Opera, Zomeropera (Belgium), the Athens State Symphony Orchestra, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, the Athens Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Eptapyrgion Festival.

Eleni graduated with a Cello Diploma from the Municipal Conservatory of her native Thessaloniki and a diploma in voice from the National Conservatory of Greece. She obtained her Master’s degree in Vocal Performance from Queens College, City University of New York, and a Performance Certificate from the Opera Institute of Boston University.

Her recordings include Mascagni’s Zanetto with Odyssey Opera, two operettas by Greek composer S. Samaras (War in War and The Cretan Girl) with the Greek National Opera, as well as George Tsontakis’s Mirologhia, released on the KOCH International Classics label with the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Toda currently serves as a staff accompanist with University of Houston and Lone Star College-Kingwood.

Previously he served as the Music Director of Houston Grand Opera’s outreach opera program for several years, and led them to great success. In 2015, his article about the Houston Grand Opera’s outreach opera program was published in the renowned Japanese Classical music magazine “Ongalu-no Tomo” Co. He also served as the Assistant Conductor/Head Repetiteur with Opera in the Heights.

Other engagements include a performance for President George H. W. Bush, and performing with world famous Mezzo Soprano Denyce Graves, Eleni Calenos, Ryan Mckinny, and a number of recitals with Soprano Michelle Bradley from the Metropolitan Opera.

He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance from the Tokyo College of Music, followed by a graduate diploma in Piano Accompaniment. Upon graduation he was an associate professor at the Tokyo College of Music where he coached opera students in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.

He started his career as a solo pianist where he performed a recital in Italy in 1996.
In his past positions, he worked as an opera Conductor, Assistant Conductor and Pianist/Coach in Tokyo. He was an assistant conductor/Repetiteur for the New National Theatre Tokyo.

During this time, he served as music staff in a variety of opera productions including Wagner’s productions “Gotterdemmerung”, “Die Meistersinger” and “Tannhauser”, also, “Madam Butterfly”, among others working with world famous conductors and singers including Jun Markel, Dan Ettinger, Giuseppe Giacomini