Rainelle Krause, coloratura soprano who incorporated aerial work into her opera, dies at 37

Rainelle Krause, a coloratura soprano who went viral for singing a signature aria portion hanging upside down from aerial silks, has died aft a abbreviated hospitalization, her household announced “with immense sadness” Tuesday connected societal media. She was 37.

“Rainelle was a unit successful our lives, a superb endowment defined by grit, fearlessness, curiosity, intelligence, integrity, and resilience,” the household said successful a connection connected Instagram. “Onstage, her dependable matched the breathtaking powerfulness of her spirit. Offstage, she was a loving, caring psyche whose vibrant vigor lit up everyone astir her. Our hearts are afloat from the years we shared, adjacent arsenic we’re shocked that her skyrocketing vocation was chopped short.”

The household gave nary further details astir the circumstances of her decease but said they were grateful to person Krause’s “preserved performances” to revisit. They said they would beryllium readying a solemnisation of beingness “at a aboriginal date” but wanted to stock the bittersweet quality present with friends and fans.

“Rainelle ever gave her precise best, pouring her bosom into her creation and those she loved,” the household said. “The champion mode we tin grant her representation is by surviving her values each day. We promote you to support her representation live by sharing her beauteous performances.”

Krause, whose website dubbed the Queen of the Night successful “The Magic Flute” arsenic her signature role, debuted successful that relation astatine the Metropolitan Opera implicit the holidays. She did the aforesaid past autumn astatine Opera Atelier successful Toronto.

“Although we knew Rainelle for lone a substance of months, we volition ne'er hide her astonishing talent. We were awed by her bravery and daring and profoundly moved by her willingness to gully each of america into her ellipse of friends,” Opera Atelier said Wednesday connected societal media. “Beautiful, generous, talented and kind, Rainelle is irreplaceable and volition ever clasp a unsocial spot successful our memories.”

Born successful Florida, Krause graduated from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music with a bachelor’s successful euphony and a master’s grade successful euphony successful vocal performance. The English National Opera said she trained with the Sankt Goar International Music Festival and Academy successful Germany, the OperaWorks Advanced Artist Program successful Los Angeles, Opera Las Vegas, the Taos Opera Institute and Opera Nova Costa Rica.

She performed with opera companies successful Nashville and Atlanta, and successful Texas she sang with the Dallas Opera, with symphony orchestras successful Irving and Plano, and with a maestro chorale successful Amarillo. She was acceptable to debut with the Santa Fe Opera successful May.

Internationally, Krause’s “The Magic Flute” performances included gigs successful Berlin, Copenhagen and elsewhere. Roles extracurricular of the Queen of the Night included the rubric relation successful “Lucia di Lammermoor,” the princess successful “The Snow Queen,” Zerlina successful “Don Giovanni” and Pat Nixon successful “Nixon successful China.”

As for her viral acrobatic performances, those appeared to person been connected clasp successful the twelvemonth earlier her death.

“I can’t adjacent statesman to explicit however overmuch I miss aerial work,” Krause wrote past March connected societal media. “I’ve been dealing with horrendous enarthrosis impingement for months, I’ve been successful carnal therapy since past summer, I’m continuously learning caller ways to effort to physique spot and fluency successful bid to enactment my VERY hypermobile joints.

“I americium successful symptom astir days,” she continued. “But I’m not giving up, I’m seeing incremental improvements, and I volition alert again — this clip moving successful performance with the assemblage I have, alternatively of forcing myself to ‘just enactment successful the work’ with each the incorrect pathways.”