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 home town of Montpellier, Marianne Crebassa won praise for her performance as Isabella (Wuthering Heights) at the Festival de Radio France. Shortly after, she joined the Paris Opéra’s young artists programme and made her international breakthrough as Irene (Tamerlano) at the 2012 Salzburg Festival.
Highlights of the 2025/26 season included her debut with the Munich Philharmonic under Kent Nagano in Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été, and Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust) in concert with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Charles Dutoit. Her numerous Mahler performances included Kindertotenlieder with the Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Symphony No. 3 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra under Riccardo Minasi and Das Lied von der Erde with the Orchestre National de France under Juraj Valčuha. She also continued her long-term collaboration with the pianist Alphonse Cemin at the Vienna Musikverein.
Previous highlights included Sesto (La clemenza di Tito) and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) at La Scala, Milan, Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 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), as Sesto and as Dorabella, and as Charlotte Kann in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon.
Her concert and recital appearances have included performances at the Wigmore Hall, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Pierre Boulez Saal, with the Berlin Philharmonic at the Berlin Waldbühne and with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the BBC Proms.
An exclusive recording artist with Erato, she has released three albums: Oh, boy!, devoted to famous trouser roles, Secrets with pianist Fazıl Say, and Séguedilles, inspired by her 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.
