Cecelia Hall

Hall’s 2025/26 season opens with concerts at the Sag Harbor Song Festival in the USA, followed by three role debuts at Oper Frankfurt: Sesto in Händel’s Giulio Cesare conducted by Laurence Cummings and directed by Nadja Loschky; Judy/Fortune Teller in Birtwistle’s Punch & Judy conducted by Alden Gatt and directed by Wolfgang Nägele, and Second Angel/Marie in Benjamin’s Written on Skin conducted by Erik Nielsen and directed by Tatjana Gürbaca.

Opera highlights of the 2024-25 season included performances of Der Komponist at Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza conducted by Guillermo García Calvo and directed by Joan Joan Antón Rechi. In Frankfurt, Hall appeared in several new productions, including Magnard’s Guercoeur and Reimann's Melusine. In concert, she sang Mozart’s Requiem with Utah Symphony conducted by Christopher Allen, Mendelssohn‘s Lobgesang at the Alte Oper Frankfurt conducted by Thomas Guggeis, and she ended the season with an appearance at the Helsinki Festival performing Thomas Adès's America: A Prophecy with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Susanna Mälkki.

Other recent opera highlights include title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola for Boston Lyric Opera, title role in Carmen for Austin Opera, title role in a new production of Mozart’s Ascanio in Alba and title role in Xerxes, both for Komische Oper Berlin, title role in Ariodante for Israeli Opera, Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi for Opera Omaha, and title role in Xerxes for Opera Holland Park. Further north American opera appearances include Don Ramiro in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera for Santa Fe Opera, Sesto in Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with the Opera Theater of St. Louis, Ruby Thewes in Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain, Clorinda and Sorrel in War Stories (a double bill of Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Beecher’s I Have No Stories To Tell You) for Opera Philadelphia, and Wellgunde and Rossweisse in Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen for Seattle Opera.

Previous concert appearances include Mozart’s Requiem with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden, Bach’s St John Passion with the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century conducted by Daniel Reuss, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Lukes’s conducted by Harry Bicket, Mozart’s Mass in C minor and Requiem with Louis Langrée at the Mostly Mozart festival, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’Eté with the Bay Atlantic Symphony and the Page in Strauss’s Salome with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In recital, Hall has appeared at New York’s Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall.

Hall is an alumna of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, The Juilliard School and DePaul University.

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