Cecelia Hall

Mezzo-soprano

Cecelia Hall
© Barbara Aumüller

Since joining the Ensemble in 2016/17 American mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall's roles for the company have included Handel's Xerxes (which she also sang at the Komische Oper in Berlin) and Irene (Tamerlano), Mozart's Ascanio (new production of Ascanio in Alba), Idamante (Idomeneo), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Dorabella (Così fan tutte) and Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Purcell's Dido, Marguerite (Le Damnation de Faust) and Charlotte (Werther). During the 2025/26 season you can hear her as Sesto in Giulio Cesare and Judy / Fortune Teller & 2nd Angel / Marie in new productions of Birtwistle's Punch and Judy & George Benjamin's Written on Skin. Roles last season included a Lady-in-waiting, an Artisan and Madame Laperouse in new productions of Henze's The Prince of Homburg, Berg's Lulu and Reimann's Melusine. Other recent roles for the company included Iseut the Fair's Mother and Marcellina in new productions of Frank Martin's Le vin herbé and Le nozze di Figaro. Recent guest engagements included Angelina in La Cenerentola at Boston Lyric Opera, Carmen at Austin Opera, the Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos) at the Teatro de la Maestranzin in Seville, Mozart's Requiem with the New York Philharmonic and Bach's St. John Passion with the Orchestra of the 18th Century. This graduate from the Juilliard School in New York also sang the title role in Ariodante for Israel Opera, and appeared at the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall in New York, Santa Fe Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Canadian Opera Company, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Aix-en-Provence Festival and the Wigmore Hall in London.