Elliott Carlton Hines is a recent graduate of the Opernstudio at Staatsoper Stuttgart, where he was seen as Schaunard in La Bohéme, Kilian in Der Freischütz, and as Barone Douphol in La Traviata, amongst other things. Born in 1990 and a native of Houston, Texas, Hines received his M.M. from The Juilliard School in 2014 and was a member of the ensemble at the Salzburger Landestheater for the 2017/2018 season, where he was seen as Spalanzani in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro. In 2018, he made his debut with Birmingham Opera Company, under the direction of Graham Vick, in Giorgio Battistelli's world premiere of Wake.

Hines' spectrum of work at Salzburger Landestheater as a member of the "Internationales Opernstudio Gerard Mortier" from 2015 to 2017 included Morales/Dancaïre in Carmen, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Il Poeta in Il Turco in Italia, Schaunard in La Bohème, as well as Sparbüchsen Bill in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny and Patsy in Spamalot. Hines received his B.M. in Voice from Oberlin Conservatory in 2012, and also worked as a Young Artist with Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Opera Santa Barbara, Da Camera of Houston, and the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (IMA).

For the 20/21 season, Hines returns to Staatsoper Stuttgart to sing Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, L’horloge comtoise and Le Chat in L’enfant et les sortilèges, Testo in Il Combattimento di Tancredi et Clorinda, and Paul in Les Enfants Terribles.