Ella Torres is a Colombian American soprano from Wilmette, Illinois.

This summer, she will make her role debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Bay View Music Festival. Recent operatic engagements include Frasquita in Carmen (Bay View), Rosalia in West Side Story (Indianapolis Opera), Serpetta in Mozart’s La finta giardiniera (Indiana University Opera Theatre), Princess Dora in Lori Laitman’s The Three Feathers (Opera Steamboat), and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte (Chicago Summer Opera), and Polyxo in Kate Soper’s Here Be Sirens Suite (Eastman Opera Theatre).

On the concert stage, Ella has made appearances as a soloist with the Indianapolis Opera and Indianapolis Symphony, as a chorus member at Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, and as a soloist for historically-informed performance practice projects at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and The Juilliard School in New York.

Ella is an alumna of the Bay View Music Festival, Indianapolis Opera’s Resident Artist Program, the Castleton Festival’s Vocal Immersion Program, OperaWorks, Opera Steamboat’s Opera Artist Intensive, and Opera Viva. She holds degrees in voice from Indiana University and the Eastman School of Music, where she also received an arts leadership certificate. Ella is a proud alumna of Sigma Alpha Iota.