Elora graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Music majoring in classical voice performance and a second degree in Classics, majoring in ancient history and ancient languages.

Elora has been lucky enough to work all over the world. She has spoken Latin in the Vatican, scrambled over ruins in Greece and Turkey, learnt to cook in Italy, drunk beers with Prime Ministers in Australia and dug up bones in The Philippines. And in each place she continued to sing, always bringing her two passions of history and music together, whether it was performing on Broadway or singing karaoke on beaches in Manila.

Her opera career began in New Zealand aged 11, when she was invited to solo at Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ONZ DBE AC’s Opera Factory, premiering a new work. Her singing career however began many years before that, driving her brother mad at the dinner table.

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Her operatic credits include Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier), Badessa (Suor Angelica), Nancy Waters (Albert Herring), Dritte Dame (Die Zauberflöte) and Dido (Dido & Aeneas). She has performed in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Auckland, New York and Siena and made her UK debut as Tisbe (La Cenerentola).

She was particularly excited to have her Sydney Opera House debut in 2018 as the Baroness in Candide. Elora has performed principal roles across many other genres, including Cinderella (Into the Woods), Sheila (Hair), Iolanthe (Iolanthe), in several productions as Wendy Darling along with film and television productions in Australia and England. Elora had the privilege of studying in the US under Metropolitan Opera Principals Neil Rosenshein and Ashley Putnam.

Elora has performed as a soloist at government, diplomatic and charity events, performing for Prime Ministers, Members of Parliament and the Ambassadors to Australia.

In 2025 Elora began her own touring opera company, Ledwell Productions. In its first season she performed, produced and toured a 2.5hr musical, across 5 venues, to more than 3000 people - all while working as Producer for Pegasus Opera Company.

Elora considers one of her greatest musical achievements to be singing in Ancient Greek and Roman theatres in Turkey, Greece and Italy. Her voice bouncing off the cracked marble of some of the best acoustic spaces ever constructed, she felt herself becoming a small link on the end of a chain that stretches from Homer and Aristophanes through to Pink Floyd.

She loves art song and 20th Century music, the weepier the better.