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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 Elisabeth. The soprano’s voice was thrilling in “Dich, teure Halle” …

New York Classical Review

About Elza

South African-born Elza van den Heever is one of the world's most important lyric-dramatic sopranos.

In the 2025/26 season, Ms. van den Heever brings her “breathtaking” (Bachtrack) Sieglinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre to the Opéra National de Paris and the Bayreuther Festspiele. She will also join the San Francisco Opera as Chrysothemis in Strauss’ thrilling Elektra, and makes a highly anticipated role debut as Puccini’s Turandot at Oper Frankfurt.