Eilene Hannan [SEP] voice type
Eilene Hannan
Eilene Hannan AM (24 July 194611 July 2014) was an Australian operatic soprano with an international reputation. She was particularly associated with opera sung in English, although she also sang in other languages. She was as well known as an actress as she was a singer. Her repertoire included Mozart's Pamina, Susanna, Cherubino, Dorabella and Zerlina; Mimì in Puccini's "La bohème"; Natasha Rostova in Prokofiev's "War and Peace"; Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin"; Marzelline
than a month after Eilene. She also had two older brothers, Peter and Michael.
Eilene Hannan was the partner of the cellist Nathan Waks for a period in the 1970s. In England in 1980 she married Phillip Thomas, a Welsh pianist with ENO. They later divorced.