Sheva Tehoval
Soprano
Coloratura soprano with impressive high notes, she plays the difficulties of the score with remarkable agility.
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Le Voyage dans la lune - Opéra de Limoges 2022
During the 2024-2025 season, Sheva Tehoval will appear in the roles of Thérèse (Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias) at the Limoges and Avignon Operas, Fantasia (Offenbach ’s Le Voyage dans la Lune) at the Opéra de Montpellier, Laurette (Bizet's Le Docteur Miracle) at the Opéra de Rouen, and Marie-Anne (Hahn's Ô mon bel inconnu) at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, continuing the French tour of this Palazzetto Bru Zane production.
She has already been heard at the Avignon Opera (Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier), Oscar (Un Ballo in maschera) at the Opera de Marseille, Sœur Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites) at the Monnaie of Bruxelles and at the Opéra de Massy, Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Opéra de Fribourg, La Première Dame (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opera de Lille, The First Fille-fleur (Parsifal) at the Opéra de Liège, or the role of Fantasia during Offenbach ’s Le Voyage dans la Lune tour in a lot of different French theaters.
Born in Brussels and daughter of a blues musician, she discovered classical music at the age of 6 by joining the children's choir of the Royal Opera of Brussels and continued her vocal training with Eunice Arias in Brussels, Christoph Prégardien at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, then with Mary Nelson at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
She was a Prizewinner of numerous singing competitions : SWR Junge Opernstars competition 2017, Concours international de chant de Marmande 2016, Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2016, Queen Elisabeth International Competition 2014, Jacques Dôme Competition 2014, Karlsruhe International Competition for Contemporary Chamber Music.
As much attracted by Opera as Lied and contemporary music, she has already performed on many European stages, including the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, the Cologne Philharmonic, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Seine Musicale in Paris and the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, with prestigious ensembles and orchestras such as the London Chamber Orchestra, the SWR Rundfunkorchester, the Symphonieorchester of Bayerischen Rundfunks, the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Insula Orchestra, la Petite Bande, Kontraste Ensemble or the Landesjugendorchester Rheinland-Pfalz.
In September 2021 her album of Lieder and melodies by Debussy, Strauss, Schönberg and Rihm, recorded with pianist Daniel Heide for the Avi-music label, was released.
Sheva Tehoval has been represented by RSB Artists since 2019.