Elza van den Heever’s portrayal of Salome sticks to her when she leaves the Metropolitan Opera for a rented apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
“Every night I wake up with the most disturbing nightmares, just random things that I dream and feel so real,” the South African soprano said. “There’s just a tinge of darkness that’s lying in my subconscious at the moment, and I wake up in a pool of sweat every single night with very, very weird, very strange things that I dream.”
