Wonderful! I have tix for the matinee. Elza has years of experience with Handel, Mozart, and Donizetti, so can sing Wagner and Strauss lyrically, not scream as we hear too often.
Lets be serious this is tough repertoire and it exacts a price. I think there is tremendous pressure to take on certain roles as the competition is fierce and there are only so many opportunities. Do people realize the amount of sacrifice and hard work it takes to become an opera singer?
What is this, just heard Jessye Norman singing this and this popped up next. All I can say is I typically dislike ultra-critical comments but this sounds more like a work in progress
She is reaching Wagnerian proportions. Why do you care? What a ridiculous comment. Are you one of those insufferable opera queens who think their opinion is always right? I know you are. @@Hans-sg5rg
She's 44 and only recently starting on Wagner. Good for her for waiting and singing all that Mozart, Handel and bel canto.
Lovely singing by Elza van den Heever🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
Such a nice and ease on phrasing and adding joy on 1:09, natural beauty.
gorgeous singing! beautiful voice!
Thank you!
BRAVA~! The phrasing, the voice, the body language, all fit together so wonderfully!
Wonderful! I have tix for the matinee. Elza has years of experience with Handel, Mozart, and Donizetti, so can sing Wagner and Strauss lyrically, not scream as we hear too often.
Wunderbar! I love the ease with which she sings those long beautiful Wagnerian phrases. Brava!
Beautiful ❤
Finally a true soprano
Lets be serious this is tough repertoire and it exacts a price. I think there is tremendous pressure to take on certain roles as the competition is fierce and there are only so many opportunities. Do people realize the amount of sacrifice and hard work it takes to become an opera singer?
Sounding already like Debbie Void after the crash, which came quite fast.
Y’all know any John Cougar?
What is this, just heard Jessye Norman singing this and this popped up next. All I can say is I typically dislike ultra-critical comments but this sounds more like a work in progress
After the recent peaceful protest during a live show burning immense amounts of energy, what is Met’s carbon footprint per show and per season?
vibrato...dreadful... can't they learn to breathe!
strained, labored singing especially at upper register, sharp, not smooth transitions, too heavy, excessive vibrato
Do you sing Wagner ? JUST CURIOUS
@@gigiwoodard2661 sure, twice a day, except Sundays )
she sounds like she should be singing Ortrud or Elektra
@@biancacastafiore8760
Hell no. This is a full lyric.
Those roles are for dramatics.
@@draganvidic2039 she’s not a lyric soprano. her voice is huge when she wants to. I saw her Chrysothemis, she swallowed up the Elektra.
Sounds and looks like Voigt, not good!
She is reaching Wagnerian proportions.
No she isn't and why do you care? What a ridiculous comment.
She is reaching Wagnerian proportions. Why do you care? What a ridiculous comment. Are you one of those insufferable opera queens who think their opinion is always right? I know you are. @@Hans-sg5rg