Ellie Dehn

American soprano Ellie Dehn made her San Francisco Opera debut in 2010 as Countess Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), a role she has also performed with Houston Grand Opera and Opera Pacific. She returned in 2011 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Among her recent engagements are Musetta (La Bohème) with the Metropolitan Opera and Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, and Mimì (La Bohème) with the San Diego Opera and Minnesota Opera. Dehn sang Mrs. Naidoo (Satyagraha) at the Metropolitan Opera and Marguerite (Faust) with the Met in the Parks. She performed Inez (L'Africaine) with Opera Orchestra of New York and Freia (Das Rheingold) with Los Angeles Opera, and she created the role of Rosaura in Spratlan’s Life is a Dream at the Santa Fe Opera. Other career highlights include Agathe (Der Freischütz) in Geneva; Madame Cortese (Il Viaggio a Reims) in Bilbao and Rome; Cressida (Troilus and Cressida) at Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Donna Anna at the Ravinia Festival, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, and Opera Pacific; Anne Truelove (The Rake’s Progress) in Bologna and Rome; and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) with Minnesota Opera. Recent and upcoming engagements include Antonia (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) and Musetta (La Bohème) at Milan’s La Scala, Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream) at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, as well as a return to the Metropolitan Opera for Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni).