Marianne Crebassa (born 14 December 1986, inBéziers)[1] is a Frenchmezzo-soprano.
Crebassa grew up inAgde, where her parents encouraged her interest in music, starting with piano and continuing when she was 14 with singing.[2] She continued her music education at the music conservatory inSète.[1] At the conservatory inMontpellier, she studied musicology, voice and piano. Whilst at Montpellier, in 2008, she appeared in theMontpellier Opera production ofManfred, which at the instigation of the directorRené Koering was followed by concerts around the region.[2] She attained greater recognition with a concert performance as Isabella Linton in a Festival de Radio France presentation, in Montpellier, ofBernard Herrmann's operaWuthering Heights,[3] in which she also impressed the critics by playing the piano on stage.[2]
In 2010, rather than writing her musicology thesis in Montpellier, Crebassa joined the Young Artist Program (studio) of theOpéra National de Paris, singing leading roles in the studio productions and supporting parts in main Opéra productions ofLulu,Rigoletto andMadama Butterfly.[2] In 2012, she made herSalzburg Festival debut in a concert performance ofHandel'sTamerlano, as Irene, which she swiftly repeated in a stage production at La Scala updated to early 20th century Russia.[2] In 2014, she returned to the Salzburg Festival as one of the title role performers inCharlotte Salomon byMarc-André Dalbavie.[4] Having sungOrphée in the Berlioz version at the Opéra studio in 2011, she reprised the part at the Opéra-Comique in 2018.[2] In February 2017 for the Opéra Comique, she appeared in the title role of the company's production ofFantasio by Jacques Offenbach at theThéâtre du Châtelet.[5] The Opera critic commented that "tall and lanky in britches or cropped trousers, she brought her lovely, focused mezzo to her portrayal of the penniless student" while noting that her "diction, however, too often encouraged recourse to the surtitles".[6]
Her considerable Mozart work has included Cecilio inLucio Silla (in Salzburg and Milan), Sesto inLa clemenza di Tito (Salzburg and Paris), Cherubino inLe nozze di Figaro (Berlin, Vienna, New York, Amsterdam) and Dorabella inCosì fan tutte (Chicago).[2]
Crebassa made her US debut in May 2015 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.[7] Her stage debut in the US was withLyric Opera of Chicago in February 2016, in Gounod'sRoméo et Juliette as Stephano.[8] In August 2017, she made her debut atThe Proms singingShéhérazade by Ravel.[9] She added Mélisande to her repertoire in 2018 in Berlin; originally at the instigation of Daniel Barenboim, she said that she felt she had "sung it my whole life" and found new colours in her voice and relishing the text.[2]
In 2017, Crebassa's first commercial recording,Oh Boy!, was released on the Erato label,[3] and her second solo CD,Secrets: French Songs, also on Erato, consisting of Debussy'sTrois chansons de Bilitis andTrois Mélodies de Verlaine, Fauré'sMirages, Op. 113, Ravel'sShéhérazade, four mélodies by Duparc andFazıl Say'sGezi Park 3, won aGramophone Award.[2] Filmed DVDs of her include Mozart'sLucio Silla andLe nozze di Figaro, Gluck'sOrphée et Eurydice, Berlioz'sLes Troyens, and Ravel'sShéhérazade in concert at theWaldbühne in 2019.
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