With a voice and delivery described as “show-stopping”, “ripe, round” and “searing”, Gretchen Krupp is quickly building a reputation for extraordinary vocalism and theatricality. Her repertoire is wide-ranging and eclectic, encompassing old and new, dramatic and comic.

The mezzo’s 2025 season launches with a return to Santa Fe Opera as Waltraute, covering Fricka in Die Walküre, mezzo soloist with the York Symphony Orchestra in Verdi's Requiem, and a return to Dallas Opera as Mere Jeane in Dialogues des Carmelites. In 2026, Gretchen will tackle another new challenge as Tebaldo, covering Princess Eboli in Verdi's Don Carlo, again with Dallas Opera.

Her 2024 appearances included a concert with the Hart Institute for Women Conductors, roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and a debut as First Maid in Elektra with Dallas Opera. Her debut as Fricka in Die Walküre with Atlanta Opera won critical acclaim from Arts Atlanta for her "imperious and opulent-voiced" performance.

​Gretchen's 2023 season marked a significant career milestone with her debut at Santa Fe Opera as Mary in Der fliegende Holländer, alongside covering Ježibaba in Rusalka. Her impressive performance in Pittsburgh Opera's production of The Flying Dutchman further solidified her reputation as a rising mezzo-soprano star.

In 2022-23 Gretchen was a Glynn Studio Artist with Atlanta Opera 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.

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During the 2021-22 season, she made concert appearances with The Dallas Opera and Baltimore Concert Opera and was a first-year Glynn Studio Artist with the Atlanta Opera. In 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 a recital and was a soloist in concert with the National Symphony Orchestra.

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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.

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Before 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.

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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.