Marianne Crebassa: Oh, Boy!

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Charles-François Gounod, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, (Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Jacques Offenbach, (Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas, Christoph Gluck, Reynaldo Hahn

Genre:

Opera

Label: Erato

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 72

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 9029 59276-2

9029 59276-2. Marianne Crebassa: Oh, Boy!

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Orphée et Eurydice, Movement: Amours, viens rendre à mon âme Christoph Gluck, Composer
Christoph Gluck, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Lucio Silla, Movement: Pupille amate non lagrimate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Les) Huguenots, Movement: ~ Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
(Les) Contes d'Hoffmann, '(The) Tales of Hoffmann', Movement: Vois sous l'archet frémissant (La Muse) Jacques Offenbach, Composer
Jacques Offenbach, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Lucio Silla, Movement: ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro', Movement: Voi che sapete Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Psyché, Movement: Non, ne la suivons pas...Sommeil, ami des dieux (Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas, Composer
(Charles Louis) Ambroise Thomas, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Roméo et Juliette, 'Romeo and Juliet', Movement: ~ Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Cendrillon, 'Cinderella', Movement: Allez, laissez-moi seul Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Composer
Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Fantasio, Movement: Voyez dans la nuit brune Jacques Offenbach, Composer
Jacques Offenbach, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Faust, Movement: Versez vos chagrins dans mon âme Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
(La) finta giardiniera, Movement: Và pure ad altri in braccio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
(L') Étoile, Movement: O petite étoile! (Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
(Alexis-)Emmanuel Chabrier, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
(Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro', Movement: Non so più cosa son Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Mozart, Movement: Alors, adieu donc, mon amour (Air des adieux: Moza Reynaldo Hahn, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Reynaldo Hahn, Composer
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
(La) Clemenza di Tito, Movement: Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Marc Minkowski, Conductor
Marianne Crebassa, Mezzo soprano
Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
'Oh, Boy!’ is Marianne Crebassa’s first album since she signed for Erato earlier this year. The French mezzo, who caused something of a stir in Salzburg, first in Handel’s Tamerlano in 2012, then in Mozart’s Lucio Silla a year later, explores trouser roles in operas by Mozart and by 19th-century French composers, together with ‘Amour, viens rendre à mon âme’ from Gluck’s Orphée in the Berlioz edition. She has a wide-ranging voice, with an appealing tang in her lower registers and a soprano-like brilliance at the top, which allows her to ascend effortlessly to the high C in Urbain’s first aria from Les Huguenots. Her coloratura is superbly fluent and strikingly delivered, one notices, on the vowel sounds in the texts rather than shaded towards ‘a’, as one finds with many singers in this repertoire.

On this showing, however, she is more at ease in her native French than when singing in Italian. This is not to denigrate her Mozart, which is beautiful and spirited, with ‘Pupille amate’ from Lucio Silla wistfully floated and Ramiro’s ‘Va’ pure ad altri in braccio’ from La finta giardiniera delivered with considerable ferocity. It’s just that when she turns to the French repertoire, a stronger imagination and greater depths of verbal subtlety come into play. Urbain’s flippant wit is sharply contrasted with the more caustic humour of the page Stéphano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. At the disc’s mid-point come three slow, sad arias, all of them sung with fastidious beauty of line; but the erotic regret expressed by Price Charming in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Fantasio’s slightly crazed contemplation of the moon and Siébel’s shy devotion to Marguérite in Gounod’s Faust all inhabit very different emotional territory. As at Salzburg in 2012, she’s paired with Marc Minkowski, just as much at home in Mozart as he is in the French repertory. There’s some exquisite playing from the Mozarteum Orchestra, too.

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