“Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s Violetta made “La Traviata” painful in all the right ways."

Daily Trojan

“Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s Violetta made “La Traviata” painful in all the right ways. Just as her character oscillated between carefree, gluttonous life to hopeless love and, finally, inescapable illness, Willis-Sørensen reached out into the open air with her high flying, precise yet cautiously gleeful tone in the first act with “Un dì, felice, eterea.” This is one of many vocally taxing pieces for the key role in this work, but it was undoubtedly her highlight of the night. It is not common to find one who performs such a complex melody to perfection with seemingly no effort.”