MARIANNE CREBASSA
MEZZO-SOPRANOMARIANNE CREBASSA
MEZZO-SOPRANO
ABOUT
Mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa’s spectacular rise in the international music displays her joy and equal ease at being on an opera stage, in a recital hall, in a recording studio or in concert.
An exclusive recording artist with Erato, Marianne has released three albums. The latest, Séguedilles released in October 2021 featured a franco-spanish program inspired by her Iberic roots. Oh, boy! was devoted to famous trouser roles by Mozart, Gluck, Gounod, etc. and Secrets was an eclectic choice of French and Spanish melodies with pianist Fazil Say.
Following Oh boy! she was named Artiste Lyrique de l’année at the Victoires de la Musique, and she received a Solo Vocal Award at the Gramophone Awards for Secrets.
Last season, she made her role debuts as Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at La Scala to great acclaim and made her debut at the festival d’Aix-en-Provence in a remarkable production of Mahler’s Resurrection staged by Romeo Castellucci.
This season, Marianne Crebassa will return to Paris to sing at the Opéra National de Paris (Don Quichotte at Opéra Bastille) She will also be singing at Festival de Radio France Occitanie in Montpellier (Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with Mikko Franck and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France) and at the Festival International d’Aix en Provence (La Clemenza di Tito).
On the opera stage, among her many performances, she has sung Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Metropolitan Opera, Stephano (Roméo et Juliette) at the Chicago Opera Theater, and Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) in Berlin and Vienna. She has also sung the title role in Offenbach’s Fantasio at the Opéra Comique, Angelina (La Cenerentola) at the Paris Opera and La Scala, Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Berlin Staatsoper, Cecilio (Lucio Silla), Charlotte Salomon and Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito) in Salzburg .
While studying musicology, voice and piano in her hometown of Montpellier, Marianne Crebassa won praise performing Isabella (Wuthering Heights) with the Festival de Radio France and shortly after joined the Paris Opera Young Artist Program, appearing as Orphée (Orphée et Eurydice) and Ramiro (La Finta Giardiniera). A few months later, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival as Irene (Tamerlano). Her career was launched.
Marianne has performed recitals and concerts with the Festival de Saint Denis, Salzburg’s Mozart Festwochen, The Gulbenkian Foundation, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the Wiener Sinfoniker, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the BBC Proms with the Philharmonia Orchestra, Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the Elbphilharmonie and the famous Waldbuhne with the Berlin Philharmonic. She was also was invited by Daniel Barenboim to celebrate the Debussy centenary with concerts with the Staatskapelle along with a recital at the Pierre-Boulez-Saal in Berlin, where she returns in March 2022 to present a new recital program.
RECENT PRAISE
OPERA TODAY
MARC BRIDLE
She brought an extraordinary, and riveting, ability to communicate through her voice – to project drama in a very compelling way; audiences were fascinated by her artistry and virtuosity. …Crebassa was completely absorbing throughout the twenty minutes or so these eleven songs played for. …This wasn’t just a faultless performance by Crebassa – it was one which drew you in from the first note of the opening ‘Asie’ to the very closing bars of ‘L’Indifférent’.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
GREG LOOMIS
Marianne Crebassa is splendidly charismatic as Cecilio.
FINANCIAL TIMES
ANDREW CLARK
In this context, Charlotte Salomon must count as a succès d’estime – thanks largely to a clairvoyant staging by Luc Bondy and the spell cast by Marianne Crebassa, a dazzling 27-year-old with doe-eyed looks, the seductive innocence of Debussy’s Mélisande and a luscious voice that seems destined for Massenet’s Charlotte (Werther).
NEWS
Marianne Crebassa Triumphs as Woman in the World Premiere of Benjamin and Crimp’s Picture a Day Live This at Festival d’Aix-enProvence
Marianne Crebassa has earned tremendous acclaim for the “heart-rending directness and vitality” (Financial Times) in her “magnificently poignant” (Scene Web) performance as Woman in the world premiere of Sir George Benjamin and Martin Crimp’s Picture a Day Like This at the 2023 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. On stage for every second of
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