Schedule

Rachel Willis-Sørensen’s 2025/26 season showcases a range of major house returns, concert performances, and two highly anticipated role debuts. She begins the season with her role debut in the title role of Thaïs at the Théâtre du Capitole and makes another significant role debut as Arabella at the Metropolitan Opera. She returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and as Leonora in Il trovatore, and at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, she reprises the role of Violetta in La traviata. She appears as Elsa in Lohengrin at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper. On the concert stage, she joins the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, and performs Strauss’s Four Last Songs with the Basque National Orchestra. The season concludes with her return to the Glyndebourne Festival in the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos.