The 2025 Beverly Sills Artist Award, worth $50,000, has been allocated by the Met to US soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen. She has been appearing at the Met sinc e 2014.
Next seasib she is due to protray Richard Strauss’s Arabella.
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