under the baton of Daniele Gatti. She returned to Santa Cecilia, where she sang Jemmy (Guillaume Tell) and Madame Cortese (Il viaggio a Reims). She has made numerous other exciting debuts, in San Diego and Minnesota as Mimi (La Boheme), and in Santa Fe as Rosaura in the world premiere of Spratlan's Life is a Dream. She has performed in Geneva as Agathe (Der Freischütz), in Bilbao as Madame Cortese (Il viaggio a Reims), and in Los Angeles as Freia (Das Rheingold). She also was Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) with Minnesota Opera, and was the title role in William Walton's Troilus and Cressida at the Opera Theater of St. Louis.

Miss Dehn has continued to collect acclaim for her concert performances. She has performed at Carnegie Hall with OONY and has also sung there as the soprano in Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Bach's Magnificat, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Harmonienmesse. At Avery Fischer Hall, Ellie joined forces with the incomparable Eve Queler and her Opera Orchestra of New York as Inez in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, and also debuted the role of Avis in The Wreckers with the American Symphony Orchestra. She has been a soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra on several occasions, the most recent as the soprano in Handel's Messiah. She has found the Cincinnati May Festival to be a new, yearly tradition: she has performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Haydn's The Seasons, Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Mahler's Symphony No. 8. She has also performed the Mahler with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of Mexico and the Milwaukee Symphony.

Ms. Dehn won first prize grants in the 2007 George London Competition and the Gerda Lissner Foundation. Other honors and awards include the 2005 National Grand Finalist Award in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and
top prizes in the Elardo and Licia Albanese/Puccini Foundation Competitions.