Biography
Elisheva Pront is a vocalist, stage director, and teaching artist dedicated to exploring and critiquing the human experience through music. She creates impactful art in collaborative settings, aiming to foster a deeper understanding of our shared humanity.
Elisheva frequently works with living composers to develop and perform new music, as well as to stage and direct contemporary music theatre. She is drawn to stories that reflect and challenge our modern world and is passionate about reimagining classic narratives in fresh, relevant ways.
Through non-traditional casting and inclusive programming, Elisheva is committed to advancing diverse representation both onstage and off.
Elisheva Pront is a co-founder of TellTale Opera Theatre, a Baltimore-based collective of music and theatre artists—including composers, vocalists, instrumentalists, and storytellers—united by an expansive, genre-defying vision of opera. TellTale champions boundary-pushing work and elevates visionary new voices, telling stories that resonate with the diverse realities of contemporary American life.
As a stage director, Elisheva recently led TellTale’s Sandbox Opera Showcase in Baltimore and directed Ordinary Days by Adam Gwon at the Peabody Institute. She premiered Senior Year is Gonna Kill Me, a Peabody LAUNCH Grant-winning musical by Ashna Pathan, and My Dearest Jane: A Jane Austen Cabaret, written and performed by Meg Huskin. She was also a 2024 Young Artist at Opera North, assistant directing for their season in Lebanon, NH.
A passionate soloist and recitalist, Elisheva has performed across the U.S., Austria, and Israel. Her repertoire spans from classical works to electronic improvisation and new music. She recently appeared at SongSLAM NYC 2025 and 2024 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn and collaborated on Project Poetic Justice in Washington, D.C., creating new song settings of texts by incarcerated writers. She was a finalist and soloist in the Colorado Bach Ensemble’s 2024 Young Artist Competition and is a regular soprano soloist at Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church in Baltimore. Other performance highlights include appearances with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Baltimore Musicales, Just Bach, Mostly Modern Festival, and Source Song Festival.
Elisheva was recently featured as a singer-actor in the 2025 Composer-Librettist Studio with the Alliance for New Music Theatre in Washington, D.C., and has been a vocal fellow at New Music on the Point (2024), Mostly Modern Festival (2023), and Source Song Festival (2023). In 2017, she studied, performed, and directed in Vienna, Austria through the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad).
On the operatic stage, her roles include Flora (The Turn of the Screw), Damigella (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Cinderella (Into the Woods), and Papagena (Die Zauberflöte). As a professional chorister, she has sung with Madison Opera and served as a section leader and soloist for various church choirs in Baltimore and Madison.
Elisheva also maintains a private voice studio in Baltimore and integrates practices like yoga and the Alexander Technique into her artistic life.
She holds a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Tony Arnold, and a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she studied with Paul Rowe.