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The American baritone, Elliott Carlton Hines, studied at Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas (Class of 2008). He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Voice from Oberlin Conservatory (2008-2012), and has also worked as a Young Artist with Opera Theater of St. Louis (April-June 2014), Da Camera of Houston, and at the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (IMA; 2014 & 2015). He obtained his Master of Music in Voice from The Juilliard School of Music in New York (2012-2014). As a master's student there, he performed the roles of Farasmane in George Frideric Handel’s Radamisto and Pasek in Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen. He was a 2017 Finalist at the EquiVoci Musicali Competition 'Salvatore Licitra' in Milan.
Elliott Carlton Hines's spectrum of work at the Salzburger Landestheater as a member of the "Internationales Opernstudio Gerard Mortier" from 2015 to 2017 included Morales/Dancaïro in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Masetto in W.A. Mozart's Don Giovanni, and Il Poeta in Il Turco in Italia. In the 2016-2017 season, Hines performed the roles of Schaunard in La Bohème (under Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla) in the Haus für Mozart, as well as Sparbüchsen Bill in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Landestheater (under Adrian Kelly). In the summer of 2016, he premiered the role of Man One in David Blake and Keith Warner’s new opera, Icarus, at the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte Montepulciano. He made his debut with Birmingham Opera Company, under the direction of Graham Vick, in Giorgio Battistelli's world premiere of Wake (January -March 2018).
In addition to opera, Elliott Carlton Hines has also sung the bass solos in J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244) (under Gary Thor Wedow) and Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248) (at the Oregon Bach Festival), as well as the role of Lucifero in G.F. Handel's La Resurrezione (under William Christie). Hines was also a Lied Stipendiat at the Heidelberger Frühling in both 2015 and 2016.
Since August 2017, Elliott Carlton Hines is a member of the ensemble at the Salzburger Landestheater, where he will be seen as Spalanzani in The Tales of Hoffmann and Il Conte in W.A. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro in the 2017-2018 season. He will join the Opernstudio of Oper Stuttgart beginning 2018-2019 season. |
