Marianne Crebassa studied voice and piano at the Montpellier Conservatoire and in parallel completed a musicology degree at Montpellier University. In 2008 aged 21 she was engaged by Montpellier Opera for her stage debut in Schumann’s Manfred conducted by Hervé Niquet. Return invitations to the Opera and the Festival de Radio France since then include roles in Pizetti’s Fedra conducted by Enrique Mazzola, Debussy’s Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian conducted by Alain Altinoglu, and Bellini’s Zaira (Mazzola), La Traviata (Altinoglu), Lehar’s Friederike, conducted by Lawrence Foster.

Following a critically acclaimed appearance as Isabella Linton in Herrmann’s opera Wuthering Heights at the 2010 Festival de Radio France, Marianne began a two year contract with Paris Opera’s young artists programme, the ‘Atelier Lyrique’.

In May 2011 Marianne sung for the first time the title role of Gluck’s Orphée in the Atelier’s annual opera production; July time 2011 saw her return to the Festival de Radio France and Montpellier to sing the title role of Halevy’s La Magicienne, conducted by Lawrence Foster.  This season, Marianne appeared in productions of Lulu and Rigoletto on the main stage and sings her first Ramiro, La Finta Giardiniera in the Atelier Lyrique’s annual production. 

In recital, Marianne has already developed a wide repertoire of French Melodies and German Lieder. Most recently she presented Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder in concert with the Atelier de l’Opera de Paris and a French programme with pianist Georges Pludermacher .    

In August 2012 Marianne Crebassa makes her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Irene in Haendel's Tamerlano conducted by Marc Minkowski and returns to the Mozart Festwochen for a new production of Lucio Silla.

Concert engagements take her to the Musikverein Vienna for Debussy’s Le Martyr de Saint Sebastien and to the Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon for Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliette.