The Metropolitan Opera has named soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen the winner of the 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award. The annual $50,000 award recognizes extraordinarily gifted singers with rising {…}
Following her acclaimed performances across Europe this season, Rachel Willis-Sørensen returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper to sing Elisabetta di Valois in Verdi’s Don Carlo. This is her second {…}
Following her recent performances as Leonora in Il Trovatore in both Vienna and London, Rachel Willis-Sørensen is set to make her highly anticipated role debut as Norma in Bellini’s celebrated {…}
Having just come from her debut at Teatro San Carlo as Elisabetta in Verdi’s Don Carlo, Ms. Willis-Sørensen jumps in to sing Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Wiener Staatsoper on February {…}
After her successful debut at the Philharmonie de Paris, Ms. Willis-Sørensen makes her next debut of the season at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, performing another Verdi role this season, as she {…}
After a successful return to the Metropolitan Opera for a run of performances of Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Ms. Willis-Sørensen makes a shift to the concert stages of Europe for the month of {…}
This Fall, Ms. Willis-Sørensen returns to New York to perform the role of Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera. Her performance at the Royal Opera House in 2023 was praised by {…}
Ms. Willis-Sørensen begins the new season with a return to the role of Rosalinde in J. Strauss’ Die Fledermaus. She was described by Kronen Zeitung as “a magnificent Rosalinde who mastered {…}
To finish her 2023/24 season, Ms. Willis-Sørensen returns to Santa Fe Opera to perform the role of The Marschallin in R. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier in a new production by Bruno Ravella, set in the {…}
Ms. Willis-Sørensen returns to Houston, where her career began as a Young Artist at the Houston Grand Opera Studio, to perform Strauss’s renowned Four Last Songs with the Houston Symphony {…}