The American-born  soprano Mary Anne Kruger graduated with a Master of Music Degree from Indiana University (Bloomington, Indiana, USA) where she studied with Margaret Harshaw.  She then came to Germany with a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst scholarship and has been living and working in Germany ever since.  She was an ensemble member of the Hessischen Staatstheater Darmstadt where she built a repertoire of over 40 major roles and concerts, and since 2005 she has been working as a freelance artist.

In her freelance work she has added three new roles to her already extensive repertoire: Salome, Rosalinde and Alice Ford (Falstaff).  She has also sung several concerts ranging in vocal scope from Perolesi’s Stabat Mater to Verdi’s Messa di Requiem.   Mostly, however, her freelance work has revisited her already-established roles such as Agathe, Alcina, Madama Butterfly, Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro), Desdemona, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Elettra (Idomeneo), Fiordiligi, Hanna Glawari, Mimi, Pamina, Tatjana (Eugen Onegin), and Violetta (La Traviata).

Miss Kruger has worked in over 20 theaters all over Germany including the  Staatsoper München, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Staatstheater Hannover, Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Staatstheater Kassel,  Nationaltheater Mannheim, Nationaltheater Weimar, Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, Oper Frankfurt and Oper Leipzig.  She has also performed in Switzerland at Theater Basel and Stadttheater St.Gallen and as far away as the Athens Concert Hall, the Latvian National Opera and the Opera Theater of Weston (Weston, Vermont, USA).

Her prizes include the afore mentioned DAAD scholarship, Ruggiero Raimondi’s Don Gionvanni Competition (securing her the performances in Athens as Donna Elvira), the Sonderpreis der Wiener Staats-u-Volksoper of the Belvedere Competition (securing her a performance as Hanna Glawari at the the Wiener Volksoper) and a nomination in the Opernwelt Jahrbuch for Best Singer for her performance as Alcina.

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
23/4/2010 - 21/5/2010  Meiningen, Das Meininger Theater
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
10/4/2011 - 10/4/2011  Theater Augsburg
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
23/2/2007 - 29/6/2007  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