van den Heever, Elza

Performance History(St. Jean de Védas, France)

2025–26 Season: Chrysothemis, Elektra

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; Elettra in Idomeneo

Recent and Upcoming: Sieglinde in Die Walküre (Paris Opera, Milan’s Teatro alla Scala); Elsa in Lohengrin (Berlin State Opera, Bayreuth); title role of Turandot (Frankfurt Opera); Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera); title role of Salome (Metropolitan Opera, Paris); Elisabeth in Tannhäuser (Metropolitan Opera); Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer (Metropolitan Opera); Chrysothemis in Elektra (Baden-Baden, Berlin Philharmonic); Julia in Gaspare Spontini's La Vestale 

San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship Program: 2005, 2006, 2007

Merola Opera Program: 2003, 2004