A 2007 George London Award-winner, Soprano Ellie Dehn continues her assent as a rising opera and concert star. Having made her 2007 Metropolitan Opera debut in the Parks as Marguerite in Faust, Miss Dehn made her debut in the Metropolitan Opera House in 2007-2008 season as Mrs. Naidoo in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha. Also this season she returned to the Academia de Santa Cecila in Rome, where she sang Jemmy in Guillaume Tell under the baton of Antonio Pappano, and joined the Cleveland Orchestra for The Messiah, the American Symphony Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall for the U.S. premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers, and was Juliette in Roméo et Juliette for the Minnesota Opera. Miss Dehn closes the season in summer of 2008 in the title role in William Walton's Toilus and Cressida at the Opera Theater of St. Louis, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Conlon.

Miss Dehn's future seasons' engagements include her debut in Geneva as Agathe in Der Freischütz, her debuts in Bilbao as Madame Cortese in Viaggio a Reims, in Los Angeles as Freia in Das Rheingold, and her return to the Cincinnati May Festival for Mahler's 8th Symphony.  In 2009 she will debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro as Aldimira in Sigismondo and returns to Ravinia in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.  In 2010 she will debut the role of Mimi in La bohème at the Minnesota Opera and returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Musetta.

Miss Dehn’s 2006-2007 season, in which she opened the new season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Anne Truelove in a new production of The Rake’s Progress under the baton of Daniele Gatti, was followed by Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Opera Pacific, and her debut at the Cincinnati May Festival ending the season as Gluck’s Euridice and in Haydn’s The Seasons with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Conlon.

Miss Dehn has enjoyed a full 2005-2006 season during which she made her Italian debut with Anne Truelove in The Rake’s Progress at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under the baton of Daniele Gatti in a performance that was televised by the RAI, followed by her Opera Orchestra of New York debut in Carnegie Hall as Jemmy in Guillaume Tell. She also debuted as the first Soprano in Mozart’s Mass in C-minor with the New York Choral Society, also at Carnegie Hall, repeating the same role with the Spoleto Festival USA where she also sang Donna Elvira in a revival of Mozart’s Don Giovanni in early summer 2006. Additional engagements of the season brought Ms. Dehn to Tulsa Opera for performances of the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and to PORTopera for the role of Donna Anna.

While completing her studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia in 2004-2005, Miss Dehn made her Opera Pacific debut as the Countess in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, her Spoleto USA debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and was also a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico in Mahler’s 8th Symphony and with Opéra de Québec in their annual Opera Gala Concert.

Miss Dehn made her Carnegie Hall debut in the 2003-2004 season with the Cleveland Orchestra as a Flower Maiden in Richard Wagner's Parsifal under the baton of Pierre Boulez, and returned to Carnegie Hall as a soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat with Mid-America Productions.

Miss Dehn’s most recent roles at the Academy of Vocal Arts have been Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte, the Countess in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and the Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Other roles of the young soprano include Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, and Clorinda in Rossini’s La Cenerentola.

Honors and Awards for Ellie Dehn have included the 2nd Place (James McCracken award) in the 2006 Elardo International Opera competition, an Encouragement Award in the Gerda Lissner Competition, the 2005 National Grand Finalist Award in the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, 2nd Place in the 2004 Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation Competition, and 1st place in the 2004 J.P. Italian Opera Competition. She received an encouragement award in the 2003 Marian Anderson Competition, and won 1st place in the 2002 Dayton Opera Guild Competition, the 2002 Akron Symphony competition, the 2002 Oberlin Concerto Competition and the 2001 Vocal Resource Network Competition. Please visit www.EllieDehn.com.

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