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24 Sep 2026

“In past revivals one of the production’s most successful portrayals has been Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s Donna Anna and she returns this time. Thanks to her near-ideal balance of vocal beauty and authority it would be difficult to find Donna Anna’s dignified closing aria better sung at the moment.”
Richard Fairman, Financial Times

“In past revivals one of the production’s most successful portrayals has been Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s Donna Anna and she returns this time. Thanks to her near-ideal balance of vocal beauty and authority it would be difficult to find Donna Anna’s dignified closing aria better sung at the moment.”

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Sep 2026 / Critical Acclaim

“Rachel Willis-Sørensen sang a scorching Donna Anna here in 2018 .. What has grown is her dramatic interpretation, biting into recitatives”
Mark Pullinger, Bachtrack

May 2026 / Critical Acclaim

“Just as the orchestra expanded to do justice to its sumptuous sound, Martín showed himself to be a mature maestro who crafted the pieces with the skill of a goldsmith, although all eyes were inevitably fixed on the American Rachel Willis-Sørensen for her ability to harmonize her vocal presence with high-class phrasing. Few voices are so pure and natural in this repertoire, few so capable of conveying the feeling of impending death in the sublime Im Abendrot.”
Beckmesser