van den Heever, Elza

Elza van den Heever (Johannesburg, South Africa)

2024–25 Season: Elettra, Idomeneo

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Donna Anna in Don Giovanni; Mary Custis Lee in Appomattox; First Lady in Die Zauberflöte; Lady-in-waiting in Macbeth; Leonore in Fidelio

Recent and Upcoming: Kaiserin in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Vienna State Opera); Elisabeth in Tannhäuser (Metropolitan Opera); Chrysothemis in Elektra (Baden-Baden, Berlin); Sieglinde in Die Walküre (Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Dortmund, Paris); Julia in Gaspare Spontini's La Vestale (Paris Opera, Theater an der Wien); Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer (Metropolitan Opera); title role of Salome (Paris Opera); Marie in Wozzeck (Metropolitan Opera)

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship: 2005, 2006, 2007

Merola Opera Program: 2003, 2004