Saturday, November 22, 2025

Relaxed freedom focus as vocal resonance: The natural vibrato of opera singer Rachel Willis-Sorensen, a quietude of the larynx

"A relaxed focus.... "

 Who ever worries about ‘wobble’ if you listen her vibratos carefully, than you can hear that they are vary, depending on the actual frase, the register - the actual segment of a melody-line, its accents. I wouldn't worry at all because we can sometimes hear a wider slower vibrato, her voice still sounds healthy and natural

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA--rVHXAdg

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxCgzchiwVc

natural breathing....

 vibrating undulating fluid, closing the tops of the chords....

 https://www.thechurchnews.com/2015/1/2/23212578/lds-soprano-expecting-twins-debuts-at-met/ 

 The pregnancy means extra challenges have come along with the opportunity to sing a principal role at the Met, as the 30-year-old singer has fought to keep her energy up and nausea at bay. A New York Times reviewer who found “the creaminess of her tone … attractive … even if its texture occasionally wavered” likely wasn’t aware that the “rising soprano,” as he called her, had felt like throwing up during an aria.

 Legato, beautiful vibrato, soaring technically impeccable singing, and a true piano

Her voice is huge, her coloratura is flawless.

 Electrifying is the perfect word !! She's stunning

 After spending a year in Hamburg as a Mormon missionary at the age of 21, German is a second language for Willis-Sørensen, who also speaks her husband’s native language, Danish. 

https://rachelwillissorensen.com/press/soprano-rachel-willis-sorensen-dives-into-rusalka/ 

 “Willis-Sørensen sings marvelously with her beautifully shimmering, silvery, well-rounded soprano voice, whose slight vibrato enhances the emotions expressed.”

 Willis-Sørensen considers Strauss ideal for “a lyric soprano voice that maybe leans a little heavier,” as hers does. An artist whose textual communication in German is impressively detailed and idiomatic, Willis-Sørensen comments that “a lot of Strauss is also conversational, so my grasp of the German language makes it particularly enjoyable for me.” 

 “I'm almost six feet tall. I'm blonde. I'm kind of stacked,” she says. “I think they could hear Wagner before I opened by mouth.”

 She says she meditates a bit....

 imagine your thumbs getting heavy and warmer and this will pull blood into your thumbs...

 she repeats positive adjectives, four or five of them, before her performance...

with all those Straussian high notes sprinkled through her part, which her pleasant, even voice rose to without strain.

Her delicately-phrased monologue “Mein Elemer,” closing Act I with the opera’s only real set piece for its lead singer, provided a welcome pause in the schemes and misunderstandings for a glimpse of a girl thoughtfully contemplating her future.

 "the fulfillment of the potential of the human voice."

She had a voice lesson the day before she gave birth and because of the oxytocin hormones her voice sounded the best it ever has!! 

" the primal sound of the voice that is found in crying....they think my voice is so sad..."

 "the only ideas that I fully internalize are my own...I'm going to say with this music what I want to say... You have to learn to sing your own song....you have to figure out what you want to say with your music and then do your thing!"

 breathe and trust and believe in yourself... trust your gut, trust life, trust god....lean into the joy....

we tend to get lazy when we go down in pitch....  

 heart over technique. Technique's ONLY purpose is to allow you to express your heart....

 

 

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