Anke Krabbe

The soprano Anke Krabbe studied at the colleges in Schwerin and Cologne with Prof. Edda Moser and attended numerous master classes. She gained her first operatic experience at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in August Everding's production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute". After engagements in Bielefeld and Münster, she joined the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2000/01. Here she sings a broad repertoire ranging from baroque to classical, romantic to modern and a large number of world premieres. Numerous guest appearances have taken her to various national and international opera houses and festivals, including Berlin, Munich, Bern, Stockholm, Catania, Montpellier, Beijing and Taipei. Her repertoire includes, among many other roles, Pamina (Mozart "The Magic Flute"), Gretel (Humperdinck "Hansel and Gretel"), Micaëla (Bizet "Carmen"), Woglinde, Helmwige and Gutrune (Wagner "The Ring of the Nibelung"), Liù (Puccini "Turandot"), Antonia (Offenbach "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"), Lauretta (Puccini "Gianni Schicchi"), Sophie (R. Strauss "Der Rosenkavalier"), Frau Fluth (Nicolai "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor"), Rosalinde (J. Strauss Sohn "Die Fledermaus"), Ein Mädchen (Ullmann "Der Kaiser von Atlantis") and Birk (Arnecke "Ronja Räubertochter"). In the 2022/23 season Anke Krabbe will be back at Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Liù, Gretel, Rosalinde, Pamina and Ein Mädchen. She will also appear in the 5th Haniel Klassik Open Air and will make her debut as Contessa Almaviva (Mozart "Le nozze di Figaro") in January 2023.