On August 23 and 24, Elza van den Heever appears at the Salzburg Festival, performing with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Vienna Philharmonic, a central presence at the festival each summer, will perform the Lohengrin Prelude to Act I, Siegfried Idyll, and Act I of Die Walküre, in which van den Heever sings the role of Sieglinde alongside Andreas Schager as Siegmund and Georg Zeppenfeld as Hunding.
Elza has quickly established herself as one of today’s most compelling Sieglindes. She made her role debut in concert with the Rotterdam Philharmonic in April 2024, conducted by Nézet-Séguin, and has since appeared in the role in Baden-Baden, Dortmund, and Paris. This past February, she made her hotly anticipated house debut in Die Walküre at Teatro alla Scala under Christian Thielemann, earning widespread acclaim. Bachtrack praised her “perfectly projected, velvety soprano” and “breathtaking performance,” while the Financial Times described her as “a rapturous and devastatingly sorrowful Sieglinde.”
The program will be broadcast on Ö1 on September 19.
Photo: Chris Gonz