Oh, Boy!
Marianne Crebassa- Gluck-Berlioz : Orphée et Eurydice : Orphée: « Amour, viens rendre à mon âme »
- Mozart: Lucio Silla : Cecilio : « Pupille amate »
- Meyerbeer : Les Huguenots : Urbain: « Nobles Seigneurs, salut! »
- Offenbach : Les Contes D’Hoffmann : Nicklausse: « Vois sous l’archet frémissant »
- Mozart: Lucio Silla : Cecilio : « Il tenero momento »
- Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro : Cherubino: « Voi che sapete »
- Thomas : Psyché : Eros : « Non, ne la suivons pas... Sommeil ami des dieux » (Romance du sommeil)
- Gounod : Roméo et Juliette / Stephano: « Depuis hier… je te cherche en vain »
- Massenet : Cendrillon : Le Prince Charmant: « Allez, laissez moi...Coeur sans amour »
- Offenbach: Fantasio : Fantasio: « Voyez dans la nuit brune » (Ballade à la lune)
- Gounod : Faust : Siébel: « Versez vos chagrins dans mon âme »
- Mozart: La finta Giardiniera : Ramiro: « Va pure ad altri in braccio »
- Chabrier : L'Etoile : Lazuli : « O petite étoile ! » (Romance de l'Etoile)
- Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro : Cherubino: « Non so più»
- Hahn : Mozart : « Alors, adieu donc, mon amour, le destin nous sépare»
- Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito : Sesto: « Parto, parto »
“One of the most important voices of our time,” is how the young French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa is described by Marc Minkowski, the distinguished conductor for her debut album, Oh, Boy! Comprising arias for young male characters who are sung by a woman – the so-called ‘trouser roles’ – it offers an alluring programme of Mozart, Chabrier, Gluck, Gounod, Hahn, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and Thomas. Crebassa – praised by Le Monde for her “incredibly beautiful timbre and transcendent presence” – shows why she has already made an impact at the Paris Opéra, La Scala, Milan, the Berlin Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival.
When she sang at the Salzburg Festival in 2014, the Financial Times described Crebassa as “dazzling … with doe-eyed looks, the seductive innocence of Debussy’s Mélisande and a luscious voice that seems destined for Massenet’s Charlotte.” The New York Times has hailed her as “splendidly charismatic” and Die Welt has praised her “evenly produced, shimmering timbre”. Shortly after she graduated from the Conservatory of Montpellier, not far from her hometown of Béziers in southern France, Forum Opéra described her voice as “opulent and perfectly projected,” singling her out as “an artist we are sure to hear more about.”