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Cecelia Hall

Mezzo-soprano

  • Hailed by the Financial Times for her “easy flexibility, arresting poise and enveloping warmth,” mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall is a member of Oper Frankfurt’s prestigious ensemble and appears regularly as a guest artist on many of the world’s finest stages. Recent successes include title roles in Händel’s Ariodante and Serse, and in Bizet’s Carmen, as well as Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther and Der Komponist in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, as well as concert performances with Jaap van Zweden, Harry Bicket, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Christopher Allen, and Thomas Guggeis.

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  • 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.

    2025/26 season / 528 words. Not to be altered without permission.

Performances

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Concert repertoire

BACH                                          
BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust 
St John Passion


BERLIOZ
Les Nuits d’Été   


BOULANGER
Psalm 130 


BRAHMS
Ophelia Lieder
Viola Songs                                                      


CHAUSSON
Chanson perpetuelle
Poème de l’amour et de la mer 


MENDELSSOHN
A Midsummer Night's Dream 


MAHLER
Rückert Lieder 


MOZART
Mass in C minor
Requiem 


RAVEL
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarme
Chansons madécasses


RESPIGHI
Il Tramonto 


SCHUMANN
Frauenliebe und -leben


TCHAIKOVSKY
Selected orchestral songs


VIVALDI
Gloria 


ZELENKA
Il Serpente di Bronzo

Opera repertoire

ADAMS
The death of Klinghoffer (Omar) 


BEECHER
I have no stories to tell you (Sorrel) 


BELLINI
I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Romeo) 


BERLIOZ
La Damnation de Faust (Marguerite) 


BERNSTEIN
Trouble in Tahiti (Dinah) 


BIZET
Carmen (Carmen, Mercédès) 


CAVALLI
Eliogabalo (Eliogabalo)
L’Egisto (Climene) 


GLUCK
Ezio (Fulvia)                   


HAGEN
Amelia (Amelia) 


HANDEL
Ariodante (Ariodante)
Tamerlano (Irene)
Teseo (Teseo)
Xerxes (Xerxes) 


JENIFFER HIGDON
Cold Mountain (Ruby) 


HUMPERDINCK
Hänsel und Gretel (Hänsel)


MAGNARD
Guercoeur (La Bonté )​


MASCAGNI
Iris (Geisha/Dhia)​


MASSENET
Werther (Charlotte)
 
MONTEVERDI
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Clorinda)
L’incoronazione di Poppea (Nerone) 


MOZART
Ascanio in Alba (Ascanio)
Così fan tutte (Dorabella)
Die Zauberflöte (Zweite Dame)
Don Giovanni (Zerlina)
Idomeneo (Idamante)
La Clemenza di Tito (Sesto, Annio)
La Finta Giardiniera (Ramiro)
Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino) 


OFFENBACH
Les contes d’Hoffmann (Nicklausse) 


PURCELL
Dido and Aeneas (Dido) 


RAVEL
L’enfant et les sortilèges (L’enfant)
L’heure Espagnole (Concepción) 


REIMANN
Melusine (Madame Laperouse)


ROSSINI
Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina)
La Cenerentola (Title role, Angelina)​


SCHUBERT
Fierrebras (Florinda)


STRAUSS
Ariadne auf Naxos (Der Komponist)
Der Rosenkavalier (Octavian)
Elektra (Dritte Magd)
Salome (The Page of Herodias)  


WAGNER
Das Rheingold (Wellgunde)
Die Walküre (Roßweiße)
Götterdämmerung (Wellgunde)


WEINBERG
Die Passagierin (Vlasta)

"Cecelia Hall shines in the trouser role of the impatient Ascanio."

Markus Gründig, Kulturfreak.de, December 2023

"The bright, overtone-rich mezzo and the extremely cultivated performance made this well-known number seem new - the sound beguiling, the floating notes miraculous. Like many others, it was sung in the original Italian, while the recitatives were generally heard in German translation. In "Se bramate" and ”Crude furie”, the singer impressed with brilliant aplomb and bravura mastery of the coloratura roulades."

Bernd Hoppe, Der Opernfreund, May 2023

"Ojalá Strauss hubiera dado más líneas al atribulado compositor porque la mezzo Cecelia Hall cuidó cada detalle, fraseó con auténtica intención y gusto y demostró poseer una voz sinceramente bella."

"If only Strauss had given more lines to the troubled Composer, because mezzo Cecelia Hall took such care over every detail, phrased with genuine intent and taste, and showcased a truly beautiful voice."

Ismael G Cabral, OperaActual, December 2024

Intermusica represents Cecelia Hall worldwide

Camilla Wehmeyer
Associate Director, Vocal & Opera
+44 7973 614630
cwehmeyer@intermusica.com

Mary Donald
Associate Artist Manager, Vocal & Opera
+44 20 7608 9935
mdonald@intermusica.com

All artists

Contralto

Avery Amereau

Actor / Narrator

Amira Casar

Chansonnier

HK Gruber

Harpsichord

Richard Egarr

Piano accompanist

Roger Vignoles