Marianne Crebassa

After completing her studies in singing, piano and musicology in her home town of Montpellier, Marianne Crebassa joined the opera studio of the Opéra national de Paris, where she made her debut in the title role of Gluck’s “Orphée et Euridice” and appeared in productions of “Lulu”, “Rigoletto” and “La finta giardiniera”. In August 2012, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival alongside Plácido Domingo in Handel’s “Tamerlano”. She later returned there as Celio in Mozart’s “Lucio Silla”, Sesto in “La clemenza di Tito” and for the title role in the world premiere of Dalbavie’s “Charlotte Salomon”. As Cherubino in “Le nozze di Figaro”, she made guest appearances at the Vienna State Opera and De Nationale Opera Amsterdam as well as at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin and Teatro alla Scala, where she also returned several times in other roles. In 2016/17, she also made her debuts at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Opéra-Comique de Paris. In May 2018, she will make her debut at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in the title role of “Pelléas et Mélisande”.

Concert engagements have taken her to the Festival de Saint Denis, the Salzburg Mozart Festival, the Musikverein in Vienna and regularly to the Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, the Orchestre National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin and Les Musiciens du Louvre.

She recently released her critically acclaimed debut album “Oh, boy” and was honoured as best opera singer at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2017.