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Gretchen Krupp
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In 2022-2023, she returned to the Atlanta Opera as a Glynn Studio Artist,
covering Judith in Bluebeard’s Castle, singing Kate Pinkerton in Madama
Butterfly, Paquette in Candide, and Flosshilde, while covering Fricka, in Das
Rheingold. She also sang Mother Earth in the premiere of Amy Leventhal’s new
opera Our Sacred World and an opera gala with the Chattanooga Symphony.
During the 2021-22 season, Ms. Krupp made concert appearances with The
Dallas Opera and Baltimore Concert Opera as well as joining the Atlanta Opera
as a Glynn Studio Artist. In summer 2021, she returned to Wolf Trap Opera as
a Filene Artist where she performed Armelinde in Viardot’s Cendrillon and
Dorothée in Bologne’s L’Amant Anonyme. She also gave her first performance
of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder in recital and was a soloist in concert with the
National Symphony Orchestra.
During the 2020-2021 season, Ms. Krupp was scheduled to make her debut
as Tebaldo in Don Carlo with the Dallas Opera but it was canceled due to the
pandemic. Gretchen participated in numerous digital programs during the
summer of 2020 with Wolf Trap Opera, including selections from Eugene Onegin,
Orfeo ed Euridice, and L’Orfeo. She was the mezzo soloist in Beethoven@250
with the Cathedral Choral Society which was recorded in the Washington
National Cathedral located in DC.
Prior to the pandemic, she reprised the role of Samira in Corigliano’s The Ghosts
of Versailles in her European debut at the Château de Versailles Spectacles.
She was additionally awarded the prestigious Georgina Joshi International
Fellowship and spent time studying in Berlin. The 2018-2019 season included
Gretchen’s return to the Glimmerglass Festival where she made role debuts as
Samira in The Ghosts of Versailles and Mrs. Noye in Britten’s Noye’s Fludde,
along with her mainstage debut with Greensboro Opera as the Witch in Hansel
and Gretel. Other notable roles include Cornelia in Giulio Cesare, Principessa
in Suor Angelica, Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites, Mistress Quickly
in Falstaff, Chocholka/Woodpecker/Innkeeper’s Wife in The Cunning Little
Vixen, Auntie in Peter Grimes, Marcellina in Le nozze di Figaro, Alisa in Lucia di
Lammermoor, and the Marquise in La fille du régiment.
Ms. Krupp was a 2018 Grand Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions (newly renamed the Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition) and a
Finalist in the 29th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers,
culminating in the 2017 Concert of Arias with Houston Grand Opera. She is a
proud alumna of prestigious programs at Santa Fe Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, The
Glimmerglass Festival, Des Moines Metro Opera, and Dolora Zajick’s Institute
for Young Dramatic Voices.
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