Elena Howard-Scott is a versatile soprano and actress across both opera and musical theatre, noted as "someone to watch" (LudwigVan Toronto).

Recent highlights include her debut with Toronto’s Mirvish productions in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, and her Canadian Opera Company debut as the Page in Christopher Alden’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. Additionally, she joined City Opera Vancouver for the Canadian premiere of Beecher’s Sophia’s Forest, as the titular role. Elena also joins Opera on the Avalon’s Emerging Artist Program, which includes a residency in Newfoundland working with celebrated Canadian composer, Ian Cusson.

On theatre stages, recent seasons have seen Elena return to Victoria Playhouse Petrolia for Starbright Christmas, Drayton Entertainment as Sibella in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and Toronto’s Koerner Hall as both Rapunzel in Sondheim’s Into the Woods and a Liebeslieder Singer in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Elena also appeared in the world premiere of Narnia as The White Witch by the Dora Award-winning company BadHats Theatre. On the concert stage, she made her Maison Symphonique (Montréal) debut with Orchestre FILMharmonique for Frozen in Concert.

During her Rebanks Family Fellowship tenure at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music, Howard-Scott made her role debuts as Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites and Tina in Dove’s Flight. She also made appearances in recital with Soundstreams, the Hamilton Conservatory of the Arts, and performed nearly a dozen solo recitals as a part of their programming. Elena additionally spent the 2024 summer season studying at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, performing the role of Janine in Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale.

Her recent concert work includes Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra under the baton of Earl Lee, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Toronto Classical Singers and Players, and a presentation of Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith’s Cut Flowers with the Glenn Gould School’s New Music Ensemble. Concurrently cultivating an impressive discography, Elena has had the opportunity to record several Canadian compositions, including selections of Brian Current’s Echoes of River of Light, and a program of Canadian works performed by her father, David R. Scott, and mentor John Greer, at CBC’s Glenn Gould Studios.

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.

Additional stage credits include Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Opera Nuova); Strike! the Musical, and Beauty and the Beast (Rainbow Stage); Kiss of the Spider Woman (Dry Cold Productions); Fiddler on the Loose (Drayton Entertainment); Evil Dead: The Musical, and The Rocky Horror Show (Wasteland Productions).

Elena completed her Artist Diploma in Voice at the Glenn Gould School (Royal Conservatory of Music), under the tutelage of Adrianne Pieczonka and Peter Tiefenbach, and holds a Bachelor of Music (Vocal Performance) from the University of Manitoba, where she studied with soprano Tracy Dahl.

March 2026
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