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Mary Anne Kruger With Mary Anne Kruger, a Salome worthy of the greatest houses was at the disposal of this production.  With a wonderfully soft and silky, dark soprano voice which was equally capable of dramatic attacks and sensitive piani, she served every facet of the murderous title role.
-Orfeus (November-December 2008)



American soprano Mary Anne Kruger studied voice with Margaret Harshaw and first went to Germany in 1992 when she completed a Master of Music degree at Indiana University. Since then she has lived in Europe building a repertoire of over 40 major roles and concerts. From 1994-2005 she was a member of the opera ensemble at the Hessische Staatstheater Darmstadt, and she has also guested in over 20 European theaters including the Bayerische Staatsoper- Nationaltheater in Munich, Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Latvian National Opera and Theater Basel.

Her prizes include a nomination in the category “Best Singer” in the 1997 Opernwelt Jahrbuch for her portrayal of Alcina. She was awarded the role of Donna Elvira in the 1996 Don Giovanni production at the Athens Concert Hall directed by Ruggiero Raimondi and conducted by Gustav Kühn. The “Sonderpreis der Wiener Staats-und Volksoper” at the 1993 Belvedere Competition secured for her a performance as Hanna Glawari (Die Lustige Witwe) at the the Wiener Volksoper. She was also awarded a DAAD scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdient) to study at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich 1992-93.

In addition to her  debut as Salome, Ms. Kruger’s 2008 engagements also included the role of Tatyana in Eugene Onegin with the Stadttheater Pforzheim to great audience and critical acclaim. That same month she also sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Stadttheater Geissen.   In April and May of 2008 she sang the role of Cio-Cio-San with Theater Freiburg  and Theater der Stadt Trier.  In August she joined the Berliner Symphoniker orchestra in a concert aptly entitled “Solo Verdi”, and in October she joined the orchestra again in the opening concert of the Musica Mallorca festival which was billed as a tribute to Maria Callas and featured bel canto repertoire.

The soprano is often praised for her warmth of timbre, the brilliance of her high register, and her great versatility, both musically and theatrically. Of her Tatyana, Orpheus International wrote: “Among the singers one first must name Mary Anne Kruger... who was a Tatjana of the very highest calibre. The singer is not only good-looking, but she has at her disposal a darkly colored, distinctive and precisely focused soprano voice, which in the last act was also capable of beautiful pianissimi. It was right that she received the most applause.”

Of her Madama Butterfly, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “Mary Anne Kruger in the title role established herself once again as a category sui generis. With an expressive repertory that extends from bright soprano purity to the shadowy depths of the low registers, Kruger commanded (the scene) as an extraordinary actor with great musical and technical substance.”

Other prominent German publications have written the following of the soprano:

“Mary Anne Kruger’s delicate Countess is nothing short of dazzling with her tender ‘Dove sono’. ” -Opernwelt

“The excellent Mary Anne Kruger is the sorceress Alcina.” -Der Neue Merker

“Mary Anne Kruger, in her acting as well as her singing, is an intense Angelica with a brilliant soprano voice .” -Das Orchester

“She mastered the highs and lows-- in Violetta’s life as well as in vocal ranges-- with bravado, ease, and the warm timbre for which she is known and which is not even abandoned in the high ranges.” -Egotrip.de
Repertorio

Alcina (Georg Friedrich Händel) : Alcina
15/9/2005 - 16/9/2005  Riga, Latvijas Nacionala Opera
10/5/1997 - 30/6/2001  Staatstheater Darmstadt
3/5/1997 - 4/5/1997  Theater Basel

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Kurt Weill) : Jenny
3/6/2009 - 3/6/2009  Theater Trier
24/10/2004 - 30/4/2005  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Ballo in maschera, Un (Giuseppe Verdi) : Amelia
24/1/2004 - 30/6/2004  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Bohème, La (Giacomo Puccini) : Mimì
7/12/2002 - 30/6/2003  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Carmen (Georges Bizet) : Micaëla
26/11/2003 - 26/11/2003  Staatstheater Kassel
10/2/2003 - 30/6/2003  Freiburger Theater
6/6/1999 - 30/5/2000  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Contes d’Hoffmann, Les (Jacques Offenbach) : Antonia
6/12/2003 - 25/12/2003  Karlsruhe, Badisches Staatstheater
4/6/2000 - 30/3/2001  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Così fan tutte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : Fiordiligi
30/11/2006 - 20/1/2007  Theater Krefeld
15/3/1995 - 30/6/1995  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Damnation de Faust, La (Hector Berlioz) : Marguerite
21/6/1996 - 24/6/1996  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Die Csárdásfürstin (The Gipsy Princess) (Emmerich Kálmán) : Sylva Varescu
25/12/2009 - 25/12/2009  Oper Leipzig
22/10/1995 - 30/6/1996  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Die Walküre (Richard Wagner) : Gerhilde
30/12/2006 - 30/12/2006  Nationaltheater Mannheim

Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : Donna Anna
7/11/2009 - 27/11/2009  Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
24/2/2008 - 24/2/2008  Stadttheater Giessen
5/11/2005 - 27/5/2006  Lubeck, Grosses Haus
29/10/2005 - 23/12/2006  Theater der Stadt Heidelberg
8/11/2003 - 8/3/2004  Theater Dortmund-Opernhaus
8/2/2003 - 30/6/2004  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : Donna Elvira
29/10/2006 - 29/10/2006  Theater der Stadt Heidelberg
21/4/1997 - 21/4/1997  Nationaltheater Mannheim
12/10/1994 - 30/6/1995  Staatstheater Darmstadt
12/5/1994 - 6/6/1994  Nationaltheater Mannheim
2/5/1994 - 11/5/1994  Staatstheater Stuttgart

Evgenij Onegin (Petr Il’ic Cajkovskij) : Tat’jana
9/2/2008 - 1/7/2008  Theater Pforzheim
2/10/2000 - 28/12/2000  Theater Basel

Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi) : Mrs. Alice Ford
5/10/2009 - 30/3/2010  Theater Pforzheim

Finta giardiniera, La (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : Arminda
17/6/2005 - 12/10/2005  Hannover, Niedersächsische Staatstheater
16/5/1999 - 30/10/1999  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Freischütz, Der (Carl Maria von Weber) : Agathe
27/2/2007 - 27/2/2007  Mainfrankentheater Würzburg
19/11/2005 - 23/4/2006  Theater Krefeld
28/9/2003 - 30/6/2004  Staatstheater Darmstadt
12/2/1999 - 18/2/1999  Wiesbaden, Hessiches Staatstheater
10/1/1998 - 21/5/1998  Nationaltheater Mannheim

Idomeneo, Re di Creta (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : Elettra
24/3/2006 - 24/3/2006  Weimar, National-Theater
6/6/2001 - 30/5/2002  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Incoronazione di Poppea, L’ (Claudio Monteverdi) : Poppea
21/1/2006 - 11/7/2006  Staatstheater Darmstadt

L'Amour de Loin (Kaija Saariaho) : Clémence
26/4/2003 - 30/6/2003  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Land des Lächelns, Das (Franz Lehàr) : Lisa
13/10/2006 - 13/10/2006  Wiesbaden, Hessiches Staatstheater
9/10/2006 - 9/10/2006  Theater der Stadt Koblenz
22/10/1997 - 30/6/1998  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti) : Lucia
28/3/1999 - 15/11/1999  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Lustige Witwe, Die (Franz Lehàr) : Hanna Glawari
27/1/2006 - 27/1/2006  Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
9/10/1999 - 30/6/2000  Staatstheater Darmstadt
9/10/1993 - 31/5/1994  Stadttheater St Gallen

Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini) : Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San)
25/4/2008 - 25/4/2008  Freiburger Theater
13/4/2008 - 13/4/2008  Theater Trier
13/4/2002 - 10/5/2003  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Benjamin Britten) : Helena
2/5/2007 - 2/5/2007  Landestheater Detmold
22/1/2005 - 20/1/2006  Essen, Aalto Theater
17/6/2003 - 17/6/2003  Nationaltheater Mannheim
15/12/2001 - 14/5/2002  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Nozze di Figaro, Le (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : la contessa d’Almaviva
16/3/2006 - 6/5/2006  Gelsenkirchen, Musiktheater im Revier
24/2/2002 - 24/2/2002  Bremen, Bremer Theater
20/6/2001 - 20/6/2001  Saarbrucken, Saarlandisches Staatstheater
12/2/2000 - 30/6/2000  Staatstheater Darmstadt
3/1/1994 - 3/4/1994  Meiningen, Das Meininger Theater

Otello (Giuseppe Verdi) : Desdemona
29/6/2007 - 29/6/2007  Lubeck, Grosses Haus
23/2/2007 - 24/2/2007  Lubeck, Grosses Haus
25/12/1998 - 30/6/1999  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Pêcheurs de perles, Les (Georges Bizet) : Léila
3/2/2002 - 0/0/0  Staatstheater Darmstadt
14/11/2001 - 30/3/2002  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Rake’s Progress, The (Igor Stravinskij) : Ann
9/12/2000 - 30/6/2001  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi) : Gilda
2/12/1994 - 30/5/1995  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Rodelinda (Georg Friedrich Händel) : Rodelinda
24/4/2004 - 30/6/2004  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Rosenkavalier, Der (Richard Strauss) : Octavian, detto Quinquin
22/6/1997 - 30/3/1998  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Salome (Richard Strauss) : Salome
1/2/2009 - 1/2/2009  Staatstheater Kassel
30/6/2008 - 28/1/2009  Theater Pforzheim

Sposa venduta, La (Bedrich Smetana) : Marenka
11/4/2008 - 11/4/2008  Theater Krefeld
30/11/2007 - 8/12/2007  Freiburger Theater
6/1/2002 - 7/12/2005  Hannover, Niedersächsische Staatstheater
19/10/1996 - 19/10/1996  Luzerner Theater
20/5/1995 - 30/3/1996  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Suor Angelica (Giacomo Puccini) : suor Angelica
22/9/2001 - 7/4/2002  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Traviata, La (Giuseppe Verdi) : Violetta Valéry
20/6/2005 - 20/6/2005  Theater der Stadt Heidelberg
27/2/2005 - 17/7/2005  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Turandot (Giacomo Puccini) : Liù
26/12/1997 - 1/1/1998  Theater Basel

Zauberflöte, Die (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : Pamina
12/12/2006 - 12/12/2006  Staatstheater Mainz
23/5/1998 - 30/6/1999  Staatstheater Darmstadt

Zauberflöte, Die (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) : Prima Dama
31/12/2009 - 31/12/2009  Mainfrankentheater Würzburg
23/5/1998 - 30/6/1999  Staatstheater Darmstadt

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