Respected and admired for her exceptional artistic skills, soprano Ellie Dehn will make her LA Opera debut as Freia in Das Rheingold. She began the 2007/08 season with the American Symphony Orchestra in the role of Avis in Ethyl Smith's The Wreckers. She then returns to Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she will perform under the baton of Antonio Pappano in the role of Jemmy in Guillaume Tell, and finally makes her role debut as Juliette in Roméo et Juliette at the Minnesota Opera. Miss Dehn then returns to the Metropolitan Opera early spring to sing the role of Mrs. Naidoo in Philip Glass's Satyagraha, and will also cover Konstanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio. She will also make her St. Louis Opera debut as Cressida in Walton's Troilus and Cressida, and her Ravinia Festival debut as Donna Anna. Future highlights bring her to the Grand Théâtre de Genève as Agathe in Der Freischütz.

Ms. Dehn has continued to collect acclaim during the busy and rewarding 2006-2007 season. She opened the season of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Anne Truelove in a new production of The Rake's Progress, covered Renee Fleming at LA Opera as Violetta in La Traviata, and then traveled to Opera Pacific for performances as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Spring 2007 brought her debut with the Metropolitan Opera where she sang Marguerite in Faust at the always popular "Met in the Parks" program, and covered Aithra in Die Ägyptische Helena. Miss Dehn also made her debut at the Cincinnati May Festival, wrapping up the season as Gluck's Euridice and also performing in Haydn's The Seasons.

Miss Dehn completed her studies at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia in May 2006. While enrolled, she made her Italian debut with Anne Truelove in The Rake's Progress at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome 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 soloist in Mozart's Mass in C-minor with the New York Choral Society, repeating the same role with the Spoleto Festival USA where she also sang Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni for two years in a row. Additional engagements brought Ms. Dehn to Tulsa Opera and to Opera Pacific for performances of the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, as well as to PORTopera for the role of Donna Anna. Miss Dehn made her Carnegie Hall debut in the 2004 with the Cleveland Orchestra as a Flower Maiden in Richard Wagner's Parsifal under the baton of Pierre Boulez, and returned to Carnegie as a soprano soloist in Bach's Magnificat with Mid-America Productions. She was also a soloist with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico in Mahler's 8th Symphony.

Ms. Dehn recently won first prize grants in the 2007 George London Competition and the Gerda Lissner Foundation. Other honors and awards include 2nd Place (James McCracken award) in the 2006 Elardo International Opera competition, the 2005 National Grand Finalist Award in the Metropolitan National Council Auditions, second place in the 2004 Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation Competition, and first place in the 2004 J.P. Italian Opera Competition. She received an encouragement award in the 2003 Marian Anderson Competition, and won first 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.