Elza van den heever soprano biography channel

• "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."

• 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...

• 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."

• 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 importa