Elena Howard-Scott is a versatile soprano and actress, noted as "someone to watch" (LudwigVan Toronto). The Winnipeg native is quickly becoming known as a committed performer on both opera and music theatre stages across Canada. This season, Elena has been working with the generous support of the Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory of Music (Toronto), and has performed nearly a dozen solo recitals as a part of their programming. Enjoying a busy performance schedule, Howard-Scott recently made her role debut as Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites (The Glenn Gould School) under the baton of Nicolas Ellis, and made appearances in recital with Soundstreams and the Hamilton Conservatory of the Arts.
She is excited to spend the 2024 summer season studying at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, singing the role of Janine in Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale. The 2024/2025 season sees Elena as Sibella in Drayton Entertainment’s production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, performing with the Victoria Playhouse Petrolia, and returning to Koerner Hall as Rapunzel in Into the Woods as part of Koerner Hall’s Special Events series.
Elena was the Grand Prize Winner of the Corcoran Concerto Competition at the Glenn Gould School (2022); was a finalist and the Kurt Weill Foundation Prize winner at the 2020 Lotte Lenya Competition; was a finalist for l’Opéra de Montréal’s Atelier Lyrique competition; and placed first in both the North Dakota/Manitoba District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and the CFMTA National Vocal Competition.
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