Rachel Willis-Sørensen believes the best classical voice is one's own, avoiding unnatural distortions that might cloud the sound.
The album is dedicated to the late Elaine Scherperel, who introduced Rachel Willis-Sørensen to opera.
Rachel Willis-Sørensen's favorite stage experience was singing the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka in a David McVicar production in San Francisco.
Rachel Willis-Sørensen was told many times to stick to German music and that Verdi wasn't for her, despite her longing to sing it.
The bombastic cadenza in Hélène's aria from Les Vêpres siciliennes is a tribute to Maria Callas, "La Divina," who sang it similarly.
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, the soprano on this album, discovered opera around age seventeen and was initially uninterested in the art form.
Rachel Willis-Sørensen learned the role of Hélène from Verdi's Les Vêpres siciliennes in one week for multiple important debuts.
