Biography
Elisheva Pront is a vocalist, teaching artist, and stage director who aims to examine, understand, and critique through musical forms. By creating impactful art in collaborative environments, Elisheva hopes to cultivate a compassionate understanding of our humanity. Elisheva regularly collaborates with living composers to create and perform new music, as well as stage and direct new music theatre. Drawn to stories which reflect and deconstruct our modern world, she cares about reimagining old stories in new and relevant ways. Through non-traditional casting and programming, Elisheva is committed to diverse representation on-stage and off.
Elisheva is one of the founders of TellTale Opera Theatre; a New Music/Opera collective in Baltimore, MD which commissions composers to write micro-Operas that experiment and push the bounds of what opera can be. As a stage director, Elisheva recently directed the musical Ordinary Days, in Baltimore, MD, directed the premiere of the Peabody LAUNCH Grant winning musical Senior Year is Gonna Kill Me, written by Ashna Pathan, as well as the premiere of My Dearest Jane: A Jane Austen Cabaret written and performed by Meg Huskin. She was also recently a Young Artist at Opera North, Assistant-Directing for their 2024 season in Lebanon, NH.
An avid recitalist and soloist, Elisheva has performed repertoire across the United States, in Austria, and in Israel. Recent projects include performing/premiering a new art song at SongSLAM NYC 2024 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY, and performing Canon for Three by Eric Nathan alongside soprano and mentor Tony Arnold at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington D.C. Elisheva was a finalist and soloist in the Colorado Bach Ensemble’s 2024 Young Artist Competition, and was featured as the soprano soloist on Peabody NEXT Ensemble’s performance of Ad Genua by Anna Thorvaldsdottir in 2022. She has been a featured soloist with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Baltimore Musicales, Just Bach, the Mostly Modern Festival, the Source Song Festival, as well as in the percussion-vocal ensemble, Column. In 2021, Column was named a finalist and earned honorable mention from The American Prize in Chamber Music Performance.
Elisheva was recently a vocal fellow at New Music on the Point in Leicester, VT in 2024, at the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga, NY in 2023, as well as at the Source Song Festival in Minneapolis, MN in 2023 where she premiered several new compositions. Elisheva spent the fall of 2017 performing, studying and directing at the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad) in Vienna, Austria.
On the operatic stage, Elisheva has performed the roles of Flora in The Turn of the Screw, Damigella in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Cinderella in Into the Woods, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte. As a professional chorister, she has sung in the Madison Opera Chorus in several mainstage productions, as well as served as a section leader and soloist with various church choirs in Madison, WI and Baltimore, MD. Elisheva maintains a voice studio in Baltimore, MD and enjoys practicing yoga and the Alexander Technique.
Elisheva earned a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison while studying with Professor Paul Rowe, and earned a Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University while studying with Professor Tony Arnold.
Upcoming performances include directing/producing TellTale Opera Theatre's Sandbox Showcase at 2640 Space in Baltimore, MD on February 2nd at 5pm. Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/telltale-opera-theatre-presents-the-sandbox-opera-showcase-tickets-1054968582429?aff=oddtdtcreator