Marianne Crebassa

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Marianne Crebassa’s 2025/26 season includes concert performances with prestigious orchestras and conductors in signature repertoire including Berlioz Les Nuits d’Été with Kent Nagano and the Munich Philharmonic, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, joining the Orchestre National de France under Juraj Valcuha for her debut performances of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, returning to the Accademia Nazionale de Santa Cecilia under Charles Dutoit for Berlioz La Damnation de Faust, and rejoining regular collaborators the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. On the recital scene this season, Marianne will be seen at the Ciclo de Lied at Madrid’s Teatro de Zarzuela, at the Leeds Song Festival and at Vienna’s celebrated Musikverein.

Highlights of past seasons have included Mahler 3^rd Symphony with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Dudamel with whom Marianne nurtures a long-lasting relationship, her debut in Verdi’s Requiem with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Mahler’s 2^ndSymphony with Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse at Radio France Montpellier Festival; as well as recitals with pianist and long-time collaborator Alphonse Cemin, including at Theatre de l’Athénée in Paris. Marianne has also performed recitals and concerts with the Festival de Saint Denis, Salzburg’s Mozart Festwochen, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Orchestre de Paris, the Wiener Symphoniker, the New York Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the BBC Proms with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and at the famous Waldbuhne with the Berlin Philharmonic. She was also invited by Daniel Barenboim to celebrate the Debussy centenary with concerts with the Staatskapelle Berlin along with a recital at Berlin’s Pierre-Boulez-Saal.

A subtle and compelling presence on the opera stage, Marianne’s operatic highlights include creating the role of ‘Woman’ in George Benjamin’s Picture a Day Like This, which she premiered at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2023, and also brought to the Opera Comique in Paris and later to the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg. Other recent successes include debuts as Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at Teatro alla Scala, and in a new production of Resurrection at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence staged by Romeo Castellucci. She has sung Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Metropolitan Opera, Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte) for the Staatsoper Berlin and Wiener Staatsoper and the title role in Offenbach’s Fantasio at the Opéra Comique, as well as Angelina (La Cenerentola) at the Opéra national de Paris and La Scala, Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Berliner Staatsoper, Cecilio (Lucio Silla), creating the title role of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon and Sesto (La Clemenza di Tito) for the Salzburg Festival. With the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Marianne has sung several roles including Stephano (Romeo and Juliet), Dorabella (Cosi) and Rosina (Le Nozze).

An exclusive recording artist with Warner/Erato, Marianne latest release pairs Mozart’s Requiem with Fazil Say’s Mozart ve Mevlana, recorded with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and Michael Sanderling. Her three acclaimed solo recital albums are Séguedilles in October 2021, featuring a Franco-Spanish programme inspired by her Iberican roots; Oh, boy! devoted to famous trouser roles by Mozart, Gluck, Gounod and others, and Secrets, 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 was awarded an Echo Klassik (now Opus Klassik) for that same album in 2017; she also received the Solo Vocal Award at the Gramophone Awards for Secrets. Her discography also includes Ascanio in Berlioz Les Troyens with John Nelson for Warner Classics, Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice with Ensemble Pygmalion and Raphael Pichon for Naxos, Mozart’s Davide Penitente with Mark Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, and roles in Lehar’s Friederike and Pizzetti’s Fedra with the Orchestre National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon for Accord.

After studying music in Sète and Montpellier, in 2008 at the age of 21 she made her debut at the Montpellier Opera in Schumann’s Manfred, and in 2010, following her performance as Isabella Linton in Bernard Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights at the Radio France Festival de Montpellier, she joined the Opéra National de Paris’s Young Artist Program in 2010, where her career was launched with performances in roles including Gluck’s Orphée and Ramiro in La finta giardiniera, and her 2012 debut at the Salzburg Festival as Irene in Handel’s Tamerlano alongside Plácido Domingo. In 2021 Marianne Crebassa was named as Officier des Arts et des Lettres in 2021, honouring her promotion of French art and music on the international scene.