Marianne Crebassa: “I love telling stories”

By Mark Pullinger, 09 January 2019

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“I can say things that I’ve never said before. I can be more Marianne!”

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

“I love telling stories”: Marianne Crebassa on the art of French song