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"The night was Elza van den Heever’s, though. As the Empress, she turned in technically polished, empathetic and outlandishly beautiful singing from her first line to her last."

Observer
Die Frau Ohne Schatten - The Metropolitan Opera

Elza van den Heever’s voice proved the sweetest of the dramatic sopranos, her high notes the purest in execution...

Operawire
Fidelio - Lyric Opera Chicago

"The South African soprano is at her absolute best in Leonore’s big aria in Act 1, drawing on a range of sometimes dark-tinged vocal timbres to subtly and powerfully inhabit all the character’s contradictory emotions, generating an unusually long and well-deserved ovation."

Chicago Sun Times
Tannhäuser - The Metropolitan Opera

Elza van den Heever was a radiant Elizabeth. The soprano’s voice was thrilling in “Dich, teure Halle,” as she sang of Elizabeth’s joy upon Tannhäuser’s return.

New York Classical Review

About Elza

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.