Along the way, you had some Debussy, some Falla, etc. (Ravel’s “Chanson espagnole” selections from Carmen.) The evening began with six songs- Seis canciones castellanas-of Jesús Guridi (1886–1961). Monsieur Cemin, too, was born in 1986, studying in Paris with, among others, Pierre-Laurent Aimard.Īt La Scala, the two of them performed a program of French and Spanish music-and Spanishized French music, if you know what I mean. Marianne Crebassa was born in 1986, growing up on the Riviera, in the town of Agde. This was almost exactly forty years ago-on June 2, 1981.
I remember when Marilyn Horne sang one, with her longtime accompanist Martin Katz. It is a great honor to sing a recital at La Scala, at least as I see it. She sang this recital on June 6, with a fellow Frenchman, Alphonse Cemin, at the piano. Before long, she will be known everywhere.” Is she? Whatever the case, she is one of the best singers-in both song and opera-now before the public.Īnd she has given a recital at La Scala, no less. In 2017, again writing from Salzburg, I said, “Marianne Crebassa is a French mezzo-soprano, well-known in Europe, not well-known in the United States. I wrote, “There was a mezzo-soprano, previously unknown to me: Marianne Crebassa, a Frenchwoman. In 2012, I commented on a performance at the Salzburg Festival-a performance of Handel’s opera Tamerlano, in concert.
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