Ellie Dehn

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Ellie Dehn
Born
Elizabeth Dehn

NationalityAmerican
EducationAnoka High School, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Academy of Vocal Arts
OccupationOpera singer

Ellie Dehn (born Elizabeth Dehn, 1980) is an American soprano.

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Biography

The daughter of Catherine Dehn and Douglas Dehn, [1] Dehn was born and raised in Anoka, Minnesota. She is a 1998 graduate of Anoka High School, where she played flute and sang in the school choir. [1] She received voice training from Judy Bender and sang in her high school's choir. She attended a vocal summer camp at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she later went to college. For graduate school, she attended the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. [2]

After seeing Dehn in a singing competition, Eve Queler of the Opera Orchestra of New York cast her as an understudy in Il Corsaro in 2005. [3] Since then, Dehn has performed as Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House. [3] [4] She has been a frequent performer at San Francisco Opera, where she has performed as Musetta in La Boheme , Manon in Manon , Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte , and Arabella in Arabella . [5] She has portrayed Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for San Francisco Opera, Opera Colorado, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Opera Memphis. [5] [6] [7] [8] Dehn has also performed on fellow Anoka native Garrison Keillor's radio show, A Prairie Home Companion . [9]

Dehn has a daughter, Arabella, [1] born in 2018. [5]

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