Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)

[1] After graduating from DePaul in 2006,[2][3] she studied at the Aspen Music Festival and School where she portrayed the title character of a cross-dressing Greek Emperor in Francesco Cavalli's sexually charged Eliogabalo in 2007.

[4] She later returned to the Aspen Music Festival as a guest artist in 2015; portraying the title role in Piazzolla's tango opera María de Buenos Aires.

[3] After graduating from Juilliard, Hall was awarded a Sara Tucker Study Grant in 2011 and continued to train as a member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera (Met).

[27] Later that year, she made an unplanned appearance at the Bavarian State Opera as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro; filling in at the last minute for another performer.

[37] Hall joined the roster of resident artists at Oper Frankfurt in the autumn of 2016;[3] making her debut with the company as the cat Poppet in Britten's Paul Bunyan in October of that year.

[38] Other roles she has sung with the company include Fulvia in Gluck's Ezio (2016),[39] the Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte (2016,[40] 2023, & 2024)[41] Zerlina (2017),[40] Dorabella (2017[42] & 2022),[43] Egla in Zelenka's Il Serpente di Bronzo (2018),[44] Vlasta in Weinberg's The Passenger (2018),[45] Hänsel in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel (2018-2019),[46] Cherubino (2019, 2021),[47] Marguerite in La Damnation de Faust (2019),[48] Idamante in Idomeneo (2019),[48] Irene in Tamerlano (2019[49] & 2022),[50] Mercédès in Carmen (2021),[51] and Charlotte in Massenet's Werther (2022-2023).

[55] In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Oper Frankfurt staged Mozart's Figaro in a version adhering to social distancing in which Hall appeared as Marcellina alongside Liviu Holender and Adriana González as Count and Countess.

[56] Still with social distancing, a new 2023 production of Martin's Le vin herbé had Hall in the role of Iseut's mother; directed by Tilmann Köhler.

[3] In 2022, she returned to Carnegie Hall as the mezzo soloist in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and portrayed the title role in Handel's Serse at London's Opera Holland Park.

A reviewer from the Austin Chronicle, who noted that the complete cast managed "to act to the rafters and still offer nuance", wrote that she "conveyed strength with a current of madness in each fluidly sensual move".

[67] In concert, Hall performed the alto solo in Mozart's Requiem with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden in 2024, with Musica Sacra prepared by Kent Tritle.