Marianne Crebassa

French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa has made a name for herself in many of the world’s leading opera houses as well as enjoying international acclaim as a concert singer and recitalist. Recent highlights included Dorabella (Così fan tutte) at the 2020 Salzburg Festival, her Metropolitan Opera debut as Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), and Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Her concert commitments included Mahler’s Third Symphony under Esa-Pekka Salonen, the title role in Handel’s Ariodante as part of a European tour under Marc Minkowski, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été under Antonello Manacorda at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia and her debut recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall and at La Scala, Milan. She also sang in the A riveder le stelle gala that opened La Scala’s new season on 7 December 2020.

Marianne Crebassa is an exclusive recording artist for Warner Classics / Erato. Her second album, Secrets, recorded with Fazıl Say, was released in 2017 and received a Gramophone Award. More recently, she has appeared in recital with Fazıl Say at La Scala, Milan, the Salzburg Festival, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.

Marianne Crebassa made her Salzburg Festival debut in 2012 as Irene in concert performances of Tamerlano, returning in 2013 for Cecilio (Lucio Silla) and in 2014 for the title role in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon; her Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) at the 2017 Festival brought her worldwide attention. Since then she has been heard as Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) under Daniel Barenboim and as Rosina in Berlin, as Irene at La Scala, as Dorabella in Chicago, as Sesto at the Paris Opéra, as Orphée (Orphée et Eurydice) at the Opéra Comique and as Angelina (La Cenerentola) at the Paris Opéra and at La Scala.

Past engagements also include Cherubino at La Scala, the Berlin and Vienna State Operas and the Dutch National Opera, the title role in Offenbach’s Fantasio at the Opéra Comique, Cecilio and Irene at La Scala and Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette) in Chicago.

As a concert artist Marianne Crebassa has performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra – in 2019 she sang Berio’s Folk Songs and Ravel’s Shéhérazade with them –, with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Waldbühne, the Berlin Staatskapelle, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre de Paris and the Vienna and Chicago Symphony Orchestras. Among the festivals where she has been heard are the Festival de Saint-Denis, the Salzburg Mozartwoche Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York and the BBC Proms in London.

Marianne Crebassa’s critically acclaimed debut album, Oh, Boy!, was released in 2017. That same year she was named Singer of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique Awards.