Countess with Tulsa Opera and Opera Pacific. Ellie learned these roles, along with Fiordiligi, at the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. She also performed Donna Elvira with the Spoleto Festival USA. Miss Dehn made Italian debuts with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Anne Truelove in new productions of The Rake's Progress, both under the baton of Daniele Gatti.

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 Mass in C Minor, Bach's Magnificat, Vivaldi's Gloria, Haydn's Harmonienmesse, and as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal. At Avery Fischer Hall, Ellie 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 recently won first prize grants in the 2007 George London Competition and the Gerda Lissner Foundation. Other honors and awards include the James McCracken award in the 2006 Elardo International Opera 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.