Canada" too loudly. "I ran out and never came back," she says. Once given permission to sing, Krucker was fearless. Trained at the Banff Centre for the Arts, she gravitated toward the cutting edge, performing contemporary opera, and finding her musical comfort zone with composers such as Claude Vivier, Rainer Wiens and R. Murray Schafer. She became a founding member of URGE, a group of women performers who make musical theatre, and began to establish creative links with people like Bartley and Gavin Bryars.
The first piece she performs in her show is The White Lodge, an electro-acoustic piece by Bryars, based on a passage from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, in which Capt. Nemo describes the nocturnal appearance of phosphorescent sea life. From the world of natural, but fleeting, beauty, she shifts dramatically to The Mercy Suite, an excerpt from Wiens' opera Down Here On Earth. Mercy is trapped, suppressed. The Girl With No Door On Her Mouth is Kruker's redemption song.