Elza van den Heever

(Johannesburg, South Africa)

2025–26 Season: Chrysothemis, Elektra

2024–25 Season: Elettra, Idomeneo

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Donna Anna in Don Giovanni; Mary Custis Lee in Philip Glass' Appomattox; First Lady in Die Zauberflöte; Lady-in-waiting in Macbeth; Leonore in Fidelio

Recent and Upcoming: Chrysothemis in Elektra (Baden-Baden, Berlin); Leonore in Fidelio (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Rotterdam Philharmonic); title role of Salome (Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opera); Sieglinde in Die Walküre (Milan’s Teatro alla Scala); Elisabeth in Tannhäuser (Metropolitan Opera); Julia in Gaspare Spontini's La Vestale (Theater an der Wien); Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer (Metropolitan Opera); Marie in Wozzeck (Metropolitan Opera); Strauss concert (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall)

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship: 2005, 2006, 2007

Merola Opera Program: 2003, 2004