Anke Krabbe

Anke Krabbe studied at the universities in Schwerin and Cologne with Professor Edda Moser and attended numerous masterclasses. The soprano gained her first operatic experience at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in August Everding's production of Mozart's ‘The Magic Flute’. Following engagements in Bielefeld and Münster, she has been a member of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ensemble since the 2000/01 season. Here she sings a broad repertoire ranging from baroque, classical and romantic to modern and a large number of world premières. Numerous guest appearances have taken her to various national and international opera houses and festivals in Berlin, Munich, Bern, Stockholm, Catania, Montpellier, Beijing and Taipei, among others. Her repertoire includes, among many other roles, Pamina (Mozart ‘Die Zauberflöte’), Gretel (Humperdinck ‘Hänsel und Gretel’), Micaëla (Bizet ‘Carmen’), Bubikopf (Ullmann ‘Der Kaiser von Atlantis’) Woglinde, Helmwige and Gutrune (Wagner ‘Der Ring des Nibelungen’), Antonia (Offenbach ‘Hoffmanns Erzählungen’), Sophie (R. Strauss ‘Der Rosenkavalier’), Frau Fluth (Nicolai ‘Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor’), Liù (Puccini ‘Turandot’), Rosalinde (J. Strauss Sohn ‘Die Fledermaus’), Countess Almaviva ( Mozart ‘Le nozze di Figaro’).
In the 2024/25 season, she will appear here as Desdemona (Verdi ‘Otello’), Pamina, Aksinja/Forced Labourer (Shostakovich ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’), Berta (Rossini ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’), among others.