Rainelle Krause

Known for her absolute precision and fiery coloratura, soprano Rainelle Krause is a versatile and compelling singer. Future engagements include KÖNIGIN DER NACHT Die Zauberflöte Staatsoper Berlin, Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, English National Opera and Royal Danish Opera. She has sung the role at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Oper Köln, Theater Basel, Opéra National de Montpellier, Bergen National Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. She is making her debut in the 2023 BBC Proms’ Horrible Histories.

Other important recent appearances have included PRINCESS The Snow Queen (with Kent Nagano) Concertgebouw Amsterdam, OSCAR Un Ballo in Maschera Royal Danish Opera, and TANIA in Luigi Nono’s Al gran sole carico d’amore Theater Basel. She sang PAT NIXON Nixon in China Princeton Festival and Mystique, a circus/opera collaboration with Opus Opera, New Orleans, MADAME HERZ Der Schauspieldirektor New Hampshire Music Festival, MONICA The Medium Painted Sky Opera, BLONDE Entführung aus dem Serail and BELINDA Dido and Aeneas Opera Piccola of San Antonio, LA FÉE Cendrillon Opera for the Young‘s touring production, and Galatea Acis y Galatea Opera Nova Costa Rica. Rainelle covered Zerlina Don Giovanni for the The Dallas Opera, was a guest soloist with Voices of Change for their Holocaust memorial performance, and sang Vivaldi’s Gloria Texas Camerata, Ein Deutsches Reqiuem Norfolk, VA, La Traviata Irving Symphony Orchestra and Poulenc’s Gloria Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra. Concert credits include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Carmina burana Plano Symphony.

Rainelle Krause trained with the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy in Germany, the OperaWorks Advanced Artist Program in Los Angeles, Opera Las Vegas, the Taos Opera Institute and Opera Nova Costa Rica. She holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music in her hometown of Bloomington, IN. She currently lives in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and trains on aerial silks.