Background
Annie Krull was born in Rostock, studied in Berlin with Hertha Brämer, and made her stage debut in 1898 at the Plauen Stadttheater as Agathe in Der Freischütz.
Annie Krull was born in Rostock, studied in Berlin with Hertha Brämer, and made her stage debut in 1898 at the Plauen Stadttheater as Agathe in Der Freischütz.
Strauss, who had admired her dramatic qualities, then chose her to be the first Elektra.
She is most remembered today for having created the title role in Richard Strauss" opera Elektra. From 1900 to 1912, she sang at the Dresden State Opera, where in 1901 she created the title role in Paderewski"s Manru and Diemut in Richard Strauss" early opera Feuersnot. A year after its premiere in Dresden on 25 January 1909, she repeated the role at London"s Royal Opera House.
lieutenant was the first time a Strauss opera was performed in Britain.
Krull sang regularly in several other German opera houses (Mannheim, Weimar, Leipzig, Cologne, Karlsruhe and Schwerin) as well as appearing in Brno (1905) and Prague (1907). Annie Krull had married the bass Max Flor in 1904, and in her later years lived in Schwerin where she taught singing.
She died there on 14 June 1947 at the age of 71.
