Willis-Sørensen, Rachel
Performance History
(Tri-Cities, Washington)
2026–27 Season: Tosca, Tosca
San Francisco Opera Highlights: title role of Rusalka; Eva, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Homecoming Concert
Recent and Upcoming: title role of Thaïs (Toulouse's Théâtre du Capitole); title role of Arabella (Metropolitan Opera); Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus (Munich's Bavarian State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Vienna State Opera); Leonora in Il Trovatore (Munich, London's Royal Ballet and Opera, Turin, Vienna, Barcelona's Gran Theatre del Liceu); title role of La Traviata (London, Opera National de Bordeaux, LA Opera, Philharmonie de Paris); Elsa in Lohengrin (Baden-Baden, Munich, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frankfurt); Strauss' Four Last Songs (Basque National Orchestra); Mahler's Eighth Symphony (Dallas Symphony Orchestra); title role of Ariadne auf Naxos (Glyndebourne Festival, Hong Kong); title role of Norma (Berlin State Opera); Elisabeth in Don Carlos (Geneva, Chicago); Elisabetta in Don Carlo (Naples' Teatro di San Carlo, Munich); title role of Rusalka (NDR Hamburg); Antonia in Les Contes des Hoffmann (Paris Opera); Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier (Glyndebourne Festival, Dresden); Marguerite in Faust (Japan); Desdemona in Otello (Vienna, LA); Mimì in La Bohème (Vienna); Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro (Munich); Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (London, Santa Fe Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago); Elena in I Vespri Siciliani (Vienna); Hélène in Les Vêpres Siciliennes (Munich); Valentine in Les Huguenots (Geneva); Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes (Munich)
Winner of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (2010)
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