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Elza van den Heever Artist's Website >> Elza van den Heever, a native of Johannesburg (South Africa), is a 2005 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow and a student of Sheri Greenawald. This past spring (2005) she appeared in the Opera Center Showcase production of Milhaud’s Le Pauvre Matelot. In 2004, she sang the role of Female Chorus in the San Francisco Opera Merola Program production of The Rape of Lucretia, and in 2003 she appeared as Mrs Nolan in the Merola production of The Medium. She made her debut in 1999 with the National Symphony Orchestra of South Africa, singing solos in the Duruflé and Fauré Requiems. She recently graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and has appeared in Conservatory productions as Tituba in The Crucible, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, the Muse and Niklausse in Les Contes d'Hoffmann, the Hexe in Hãnsel und Gretel, Leonora in Il Trionfo dell’Onore, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Athamas in Semele, and Ottavia in L'Incoronazione di Poppea. She appeared in 2002 in the title role in Serse and as Dido in Dido and Aeneas with the Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI) and in 2003 in the title role of Ariodante with Pocket Opera. She made her debut with the Philharmonia Baroque in 2002 singing the role of Clara in Beethoven’s Incidental Music for Egmont, and she made her Earplay debut in 2004 in the world premiere of Sappho Fragments by San Jose composer Richard Aldag. She was a 2003 Pacific Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan National Council Auditions where she received the Encouragement Award. O1C Performances: Basically British X: Across the English Channel |
