‘Fidelio’ at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Elza van den Heever begins her 2024/25 season by reprising the role of Leonore in Fidelio {…}
South African-born Elza van den Heever is one of the world's most important lyric-dramatic sopranos.
She opens the season 2024/25 as Leonore (Fidelio) at Lyric Opera Chicago. The Metropolitan Opera presents the soprano als Empress (Frau ohne Schatten) and as Salome in two of her signature roles. She will make her debut at La Scala Milano as Sieglinde (Walküre) under the baton of Christian Thielemann and appear as Elettra (Idomeneo) at the San Francisco Opera under Eun Sun Kim. Concert engagements include a Strauss concert with the Metropolitan Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Carnegie Hall New York.
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