Biography
The Texan baritone Elliott Carlton Hines completed his studies in 2012 at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and subsequently earned his Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School in New York.He was a Lied Stipendiat at the Heidelberger Frühling and a finalist in the EquiVoci Musicali Competition 'Salvatore Licitra' in Milan.
In 2015/16, Elliott Carlton Hines became a member of the Gerard Mortier International Opera Studio at the Salzburger Landestheater, where he later sang as a permanent member before joining the Staatsoper Stuttgart in the 2020/21 season as a full ensemble member.
Over the years, he has built up an extensive repertoire with many specialist roles, including Masetto/Don Giovanni, Prosdocimo/Il turco in Italia, Schaunard/La Bohème, Sparbüchsen Bill/Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Spalanzani/Hoffmann's Erzählungen, Il Conte/Le Nozze di Figaro, Kilian/Der Freischütz, Herr Eiler/Der Schauspieldirektor, Papageno/Zauberflöte, Die Standuhr und Der Kater/L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Kirschbaumträger/Die Verurteilung des Lukullus, Sythyre und Cythéron/Platée und Testo/Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda.
In concert, Elliott Carlton Hines sang the bass solos in Bach's ‘St Matthew Passion’ and ‘Christmas Oratorio’ at the Oregon Bach Festival as well as the role of Lucifero in Handel's ‘La Resurrezione’ under the direction of William Christie.
Guest productions have included the world premiere of Icarus (Blake/Warner) at the festival in Montepulciano, Wake (Battistelli) at Birmingham Opera and Die sieben Todsünden and Mahagonny Songspiel (Weill) at La Scala in Milan under Riccardo Chailly in 2021.
In recent seasons, he has appeared in Stuttgart in productions such as Rameau's Platée, the premiere of the robber Hotzenplotz by composer Sebastian Schwab as Kasperl, the staged St John Passion under Diego Fasolis, Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise, the world premiere of the opera Dora by Bernhard Lang and in a pasticcio baroque opera La Fest. He also appeared in a new production of Kurt Weill's Lady in the Dark at Opera Zuid in the Netherlands.
In the current 2024/25 season, Elliott Carlton Hines can once again be heard in Stuttgart as part of The Robber Hotzenplotz, La Fest and Dora, as well as performing a song concert in the foyer of the opera house. A special highlight is his return to La Scala in Milan in a new production of a triptych by Kurt Weill with The Seven Deadly Sins, Mahagonny - Songspiel and Happy End under Riccardo Chailly and director Irina Brook.
Management
Artist Manager

Natascha van Randenborgh
Associate Director
natascha@orlob.net
Mobil: +49-173-7 76 88 20
Repertoire
Repertoire Concert
Bach, J.S. | Christmas Oratorio |
Ich habe genug, BWV 82 | |
St. John Passion / Arias | |
St. Mark Passion / Arias, Jesus | |
St. Matthew Passion / Jesus | |
Barber | Dover Beach |
Duruflé | Requiem |
Fauré | Requiem |
Kutavičius, B. | Iš jotvingių akmens (From the Yotvingian stone) |
Jeruzalės vartai (The Gates of Jerusalem) | |
Händel | La Resurrezione / Lucifero |
Messiah | |
Haydn | Heiligmesse |
Nicolaimesse | |
Martin | Sechs Monologe aus Jedermann |
Mozart | Coronation Mass |
The Little Masonic Cantata KV 623 | |
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore | |
Poulenc | Le Bal Masqué |
Schütz | Die Sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz / Jesus |
Schumann | Kerner-Lieder, Op. 35 |
Telemann | Du aber, Daniel, gehe hin |
Repertoire Opera
Battistelli, Giorgio | Wake (World Premiere) | Jesus |
Bizet | Carmen | Dancaïre |
Moralès | ||
Blake, David | Icarus (World Premiere) | Man One |
Brand, Max | Stormy Interlude | Trooper |
Dessau | Die Verurteilung des Lukullus | Kirschbaumträger |
Donizetti | Don Pasquale | Notaro |
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali | L'ispettore del teatro | |
L'elisir d'amore | Belcore | |
Glass | Les enfants terribles | Paul |
Gluck | Iphigénie en Tauride | Un Scythe |
Le Ministre du Sanctuaire | ||
Gregoretti, Lucio | La fugitive | Director |
Händel | Radamisto | Farasmane |
Haydn | Il mondo della luna | Scolari |
Janáček | Cunning Little Vixen | Pasek |
King, Matthew | The Pied Piper | Henchman |
Lang, Bernhard | Dora (World Premiere) | Berthold |
Martin, Jorge | Tobermory | Tobermory |
Messiaen | Saint François d'Assise | Frère Sylvestre |
Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Papageno |
Don Giovanni | Masetto | |
Le nozze di Figaro | Il Conte di Almaviva | |
Mozart/Albrecht | Der Schauspieldirektor | Herr Eiler |
Offenbach | Les Contes d'Hoffmann | Spalanzani |
Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmélites | 1 Officer |
Prokofiev | L'Amour des trois oranges | Le Maître de cérémonies |
Puccini | La bohème | Schaunard |
Rameau | Platée | Un Satyre |
Cithéron | ||
Ravel | L'Enfant et les Sortilèges | L'Arbre |
L'Horloge comtoise | ||
Le Chat | ||
Le Fauteuil | ||
L'Heure espagnole | Don Inigo Gomez | |
Rossini | Il signor Bruschino | Gaudenzio |
Il turco in Italia | Poeta | |
La scala di seta | Germano | |
Viva la Diva - Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali | Stage Director | |
Schwab, Sebastian | Der Räuber Hotzenplotz | Kasperl |
Smetana | The bartered bride | Krušina |
Strauss, R. | Ariadne auf Naxos | Perückenmacher |
Verdi | La traviata | Barone Douphol |
Rigoletto | Il conte di Monterone | |
Weber | Der Freischütz | Kilian |
Weill | Mahagonny Songspiel | Bobby |
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | Bank-Account Billy | |
The Seven Deadly Sins | Brother |
Repertoire Musical
Bricusse | Doctor Dolittle | Albert Blossom |
Schneller Ochse | ||
Idle/Du Prez/Innes | Spamalot | Patsy |
Strouse/Carnin | President | Annie |
Weill/Gershwin/Hart | Lady in the Dark | Charley Johnson |
News

Longing for something new - world premiere "Dora" in Stuttgart
Elliott Carlton Hines shines in the touching role of Berthold in the world premiere by Bernhard Lang at the Stuttgart State Opera, directed by Elisabeth Stöppler and conducted by Elena Schwarz.Premiere on 3 March.
Further performance dates: 8/15/22 March and 1/4 April 2024
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Press
Enfants terribles / Staatsoper Stuttgart / 13.03.2022 / onlinemerker.com
"Als Paul brilliert Elliott Carlton Hines mit opulentem Bariton"
Enfants terribles / Staatsoper Stuttgart / 13.03.2022 / kultur-extra.de
"...Elliott Carlton Hines (sängerisch mit seinem vollen kräftigen Bariton der primus inter pares)..."
Enfants terribles / Staatsoper Stuttgart / 13.03.2022 / stuttgarter-nachrichten.de
"Den sängerisch stärksten Eindruck macht Elliott Carlton Hines. Sein markanter Bariton klingt zwar fast ein wenig zu reif für den jugendlichen Paul, aber seine differenzierte Gestaltung ist ansprechend"
Matthäus-Passion / Christuskirche Salzburg / 27.03.17 / drehpunktkultur.at
"strahlt Charisma aus: stimmlich wie optisch"