This July, Elza van den Heever joins the Bayreuth Festival, performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony under the baton of Christian Thielemann. She will be joined by soloists Christa Mayer, Piotr Beczała, and Georg Zeppenfeld.
Celebrated for her international success as Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio, van den Heever sings Beethoven’s music with deep sensitivity and commanding presence, “artfully combining body language and communicative singing” (Chicago Sun-Times). She last performed the soprano solo in the Ninth Symphony in 2022 at The Metropolitan Opera under the baton of Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin as part of The Metropolitan Opera’s A Concert for Ukraine.