The mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa’s spectacular rise on the international music scene has demonstrated that she is equally at ease on an opera stage, in a concert hall or in a recording studio.
While studying in her hometown of Montpellier, Marianne Crebassa won praise for her performance as Isabella (Wuthering Heights) with the Festival de Radio France and shortly after joined the Paris Opéra’s Young Artist Program and made her international breakthrough as Irene (Tamerlano) at the 2012 Salzburg Festival.
Highlights of the 2023/24 season include her return to the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder under Mikko Franck at the Festival de Radio France Occitanie. In 2022/23 she made her role debut as Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at La Scala, Milan, and also made her debut at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Mahler’s Auferstehung directed by Romeo Castellucci.
Earlier engagements included Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Metropolitan Opera, Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Dorabella (Così fan tutte) at the Vienna State Opera, Offenbach’s Fantasio at the Opéra Comique, Angelina (La Cenerentola) at the Paris Opéra and Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Berlin State Opera. She has returned to the Salzburg Festival as Cecilio (Lucio Silla), Sesto and in the world premiere of Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon.
She has given recitals and concerts with the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Staatskapelle Berlin, among others. She has also appeared at the Wigmore Hall, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, the Pierre Boulez Saal, with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne and with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms.
An exclusive recording artist with Erato, she has released three albums. Oh, boy! was devoted to famous trouser roles by Mozart, Gluck and Gounod, and Secrets was an eclectic choice of French and Spanish melodies with pianist Fazıl Say. Her latest album, Séguedilles, released in October 2021, was also inspired by Crebassa’s Iberian roots.
Marianne Crebassa was named ‘Artiste Lyrique de l’année‘ at the Victoires de la Musique and received a Solo Vocal Award at the Gramophone Awards for Secrets.
