Soprano Ella Canney is a senior Vocal Performance major at the University of South Carolina, where she studies with esteemed mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway. Ella is a two-time winner of the USC Vocal Arts Honors Recital and a recipient of the Columbia Music Clubs Scholarship Fund Competition. She is also a winner of the 2026 USC Concerto-Aria competition. She has appeared in multiple productions with Opera at USC- most recently as Anna Gomez in Menotti’s The Consul and La Ciesca in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. This fall she will sing the titular role in Handel’s Alcina. Her summer experiences include participation in the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Summer Performing Arts with Juilliard, Opera Lucca, and the USC Castleton Immersion Program. Most recently, she attended the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory where she performed the role of First Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and covered the role of Lia in Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue.