Anke Krabbe

Anke Krabbe studied at the universities in Schwerin and Cologne with Prof. Edda Moser and attended numerous master classes. The soprano 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 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 premieres. 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”), Micaëla (Bizet “Carmen”), Bubikopf (Ullmann “Der Kaiser von Atlantis”), Woglinde (Wagner “Der Ring des Nibelungen”), Antonia (Offenbach “Hoffmanns Erzählungen”), Frau Fluth (Nicolai “Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor”), Liù (Puccini “Turandot”), Rosalinde (J. Strauss son “Die Fledermaus”), Countess Almaviva ( Mozart “Le nozze di Figaro”).
In the 2024/25 season, she will appear as Desdemona (Verdi “Otello”), Pamina/ First Lady (Mozart “Die Zauberflöte”), Aksinja/Forced Laborer (Shostakovich “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk”), Freia (Wagner “Das Rheingold”) and Berta (Rossini “Il barbiere di Siviglia”), among others.