Marianne Crebassa

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World premiere of Charlotte Salomon at the Salzburg Festival 2014, Marianne Crebassa as Charlotte Kann on the right

Marianne Crebassa (born December 14, 1986 in Béziers ) is a French opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Crebassa studied singing and piano at the Conservatoire de Montpellier and musicology at the University of Montpellier . In 2008, at the age of 21, she made her stage debut at the Opéra National de Montpellier in Robert Schumann's Manfred under Hervé Niquet .

"When I started singing, I was curious and fascinated by how it succeeds in making your voice so big, this technique that allows you to always discover new spaces in yourself."

- Marianne Crebassa : Interview with Angelika Kellhammer, August 2014

Festival de Radio France and Montpellier

Since then she can be heard regularly at this house and at the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier . a. in Pizzetti's Fedra , Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien , Bellinis Zaira , Verdi's La traviata and Lehárs Friederike . After her success as Isabella Linton in Bernard Herrmann's opera Wuthering Heights in 2010, she was engaged for two years at the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris . In addition to smaller roles in the main house - in Lulu by Alban Berg and Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi - Crebassa made role debuts as Gluck's Orfeo and as Ramiro in Mozart's La finta giardiniera . In July 2011 she sang the title role in Halévy's La Magicienne at the Festival de Radio France under Lawrence Foster .

Salzburg Festival

In 2012, Crebassa made her Salzburg Festival debut as Irene in two concert performances of Handel's Tamerlano under Marc Minkowski . Under his direction, she was also heard as Cecilio in Mozart's Lucio Silla in 2013 at the Salzburg Mozart Week and at the Salzburg Festival. In 2014 she celebrated a great personal success as Charlotte Kann, the alter ego of Charlotte Salomon in the world premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie 's opera of the same name, staged by Luc Bondy and conducted by the composer.

In the 2013–14 season she sang for the first time Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte (in Montpellier), Siébel in Gounod's Faust (at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam) and in concert performance Juliette in Berlioz ' Roméo et Juliette (in Lisbon and Bad Kissingen ). In the 2014–15 season, Crebassa made her debut at La Scala in Milan (as Cecilio in Lucio Silla ) and at the Theater an der Wien (as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro ) and returned to Mozart Week for the bartabas production of Mozart's Davide penitente .

International career

The singer made her debut as Cherubino in November 2015 at the Berlin State Opera in the Schiller Theater and in June 2016 at the Vienna State Opera . The Berlin series of performances was directed by Gustavo Dudamel . Crebassa then sang Cherubino in the highly acclaimed performance of Le nozze di Figaro at La Scala in Milan under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst , which was also taken over by the RAI broadcaster for television.

In 2015 she performed on the concert stage with Berlioz ' Roméo et Juliette under the musical direction of Daniele Gatti , as well as Ravel's Shéhérazade with the Orchester National du Capitole de Toulouse . There was also a gala concert with Les Musiciens du Louvre and the world premiere of works by Fazıl Say as part of the Bremen Music Festival . She last made her debut in the USA with Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges , under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen .

At the turn of the year 2016/17, Marianne Crebassa sang at the Vienna Konzerthaus at the Vienna Symphony Orchestra 's New Year's Eve concert . In January 2017 her debut album “ Oh, Boy! “, Which musically explores the world of trouser roles and gender swap, between Mozart and French opera.

In 2019 she réussed in the Berlin State Opera under the musical direction of Julien Salemkour and staged by Ruth Berghaus as Rosina in the Rossini opera Il barbiere di Siviglia .

Discography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Marianne Crebassa, l'incandescence d'une voix" , Le Monde July 26, 2014, accessed on January 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Angelika Kellhammer: A voice full of warmth and melancholy ( Memento from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Das Erste, August 10, 2014
  3. ↑ Alexandra Maria Dielitz: CD - Marianne Crebassa and Fazil Say. "Secrets" - French songs . In: br-klassik.de , December 16, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Crebassa, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French opera singer with a mezzo-soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Beziers