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News, Season Announcement

Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Elisabeth Teige, Karen Cargill &  Louise Alder lead Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2026-27 Season

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The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s 2026-27 season. Here are the vocal performances. Gustavo Gimeno conducts María Toledo and Eric Abramovitz in a program of Falla, Stravinsky, and Jose Gonzalez Granero. Performance Dates: Oct. 1 & 3, 2026 Gustavo Gimeno and Rachel Willis-Sørensen team up for Strauss’ “Four Last Songs.” The program also includes Mahler and Beethoven. Performance Dates: Nov. 12 & 14, {…}

News, Season Announcement

Kathryn Lewek, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Clay Hilley, Emily Rocha & Duke Kim Lead Canadian Opera Company’s 2026-27 Season

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The Canadian Opera Company has announced its 2026-27 season. Verdi’s “La Traviata” opens the season with a cast that includes Kathryn Lewek, Lucia Cesaroni, Long Long, Luke Norvell, Russell Braun, and Reginald Smith, Jr. Paolo Carignani conducts Arin Arbus’ production. Performance Dates: Sept. 18-Oct. 17, 2026 Laurence Kilsby, Joel Alison, Daniel Okulitch, Lauren Fagan, Martina Myskohlid, and Tracy Dahl lead {…}

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Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Heidi Stober, Amina Edris, Adela Zaharia, Brian Mulligan Headline San Francisco Opera’s 2026-27 Season

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(Photo: Hans Jörg Michel/Hamburg State Opera) San Francisco Opera has announced its 2026–27 season, the Company’s 104th. The season opens with Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra,” conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim in a new-to-San-Francisco-Opera production by Claus Guth. Baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat sings the title role, with Eleonora Buratto as Amelia, Christian Van Horn as Fiesco, and Joshua Guerrero as Gabriele {…}

News, Streaming

Metropolitan Opera to Present ‘Arabella’ Live in HD with Rachel Willis-Sørensen

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(Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season is set to present Strauss’s “Arabella” on Nov. 22. The opera will star soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Arabella, opposite bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as Mandryka. Soprano Louise Alder sings the role of Zdenka while soprano Julie Roset takes on the role of Fiakermilli. The cast also includes {…}

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Rachel Willis-Sørensen & Tomasz Konieczny Lead Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Arabella’

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(Credit:  Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera) The Metropolitan Opera is set to present Strauss’ “Arabella” for the first time since 2014. The company will present Otto Schenk’s 1983 production, with sets designed by Günther Schneider-Siemssen, costumes by Milena Canonero, and lighting by Gil Wechsler. The work will star Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen in the title role and Tomasz Konieczny as {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Rachel Willis-Sørensen on Winning the Beverly Sills Award

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(Credit: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera) In 2006, the Beverly Sills Award was established to help further the careers of rising stars by providing additional funding for vocal coaching, language study, travel costs, and other professional expenses. Sills was well-known as a supporter and friend to developing young artists, and the award was meant to honor her legacy as an {…}

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Rachel Willis-Sørensen Wins 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award

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(Photo by Olivia-Kahler) The Metropolitan Opera has named Rachel Willis-Sørensen the 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award Winner. Willis-Sørensen will receive $50,000 as part of the award, which recognizes “extraordinarily gifted singers with rising Met careers.” The soprano debuted in 2014 in “Le Nozze di Figaro” and has since appeared in several major productions with the company. This season, she was {…}

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Rachel Willis-Sørensen Headlines Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s 2025 Resilience Tour

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The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra has announced its 2025 Resilience Tour set for this August. The tour will take the ensemble through Warsaw, Wroclaw, Lucerne, Vilnius, Jürmala, Bucharest, Amsterdam, and London. One program will feature the Prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde” featuring soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen as well as Kolomiiets’ “Suite from ‘The Mothers of Kherson’” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. {…}

News, Season Announcement

Natalya Romaniw, Francesca Aspromonte, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Liv Redpath & David Portillo Headline Glyndebourne’s 2026 Season

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Glyndebourne Festival has announced its 2026 season. New Productions Puccini’s “Tosca” will be directed by Ted Huffman with two casts. Robin Ticciati conducts the first run with a cast that includes Caitlin Gotimer as Floria Tosca, Matteo Lippi as Mario Cavaradossi, and Vladislav Sulimsky as Baron Scarpia. Jordan de Souza conducts the second cast that includes Natalya Romaniw as Floria {…}