Cecelia Hall
Mezzo-soprano
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Since joining the Ensemble in 2016/17 American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall's roles for the company have included Mercédès in Carmen, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Purcell's Dido, her first Irenes in Tamerlano and the title role in Xerxes, which she sang at the Komische Oper Berlin. During the 2024/25 season roles include a Lady-in-waiting, Artisan and Madame Laperouse in new productions of Henze's The Prince of Homburg, Berg's Lulu and Reimann's Melusine. Other recent roles in Frankfurt have included her first Charlottes in Werther, 2nd Lady in a new Die Zauberflote, Iseut the Fair's Mother in Frank Martin's Le vin herbé and Marcellina and the lead role in new productions of Le nozze di Figaro and Mozart's Ascanio in Alba. Recent guest engagements have included Angelina in La Cenerentola at Boston Lyric Opera and Megacle in Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade with the Ensemble Matheus. Other roles since joining the company have included Idamante (Idomeneo), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Mère Jeanne de l'Enfant Jesus in a new Dialogues des Carmélites, Marguerite (La damnation de Faust), Hänsel (Hänsel und Gretel), Fulvia in Gluck's Ezio and she gave a thrilling recital with Maria Bengtsson. This graduate from the Juilliard School in New York also sang the title role in Ariodante for Israel Opera, took part in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in the Carnegie Hall and appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Santa Fe Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Aix-en-Provence Festival, the Philharmonie in Moscow and Seattle Opera singing roles including the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos), Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) Sesto and Annio (La clemenza di Tito) and Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi) and sang in the Wigmore Hall in London.