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Cecelia Hall (mezzo-soprano)

April 14, 2024

Cecelia Hall (born c. 1985)[1] is an American operatic mezzo-soprano. A native of North Carolina, Hall trained as a singer at DePaul University and the Juilliard School before becoming a member of the young artist programs at the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. She made her European debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2014 and became a resident artist at Oper Frankfurt in 2016; a position she remains in as of 2024. She continues to perform as a guest artist in operas and concerts with other organizations internationally. She has performed leading roles in the mezzo-soprano repertoire including title roles, both women such as Purcell's Dido, Rossini's La Cenerentola, and Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires, and men including Cavalli's Eliogabalo, Handel's Ariodante, Serse and Teseo, Mozart's Ascanio in Alba and Humperdinck's Hänsel.

Cecelia Hall
Born
North Carolina, U.S.
EducationDePaul University
Juilliard School
Lindemann Young Artist Development Program
Ryan Opera Center
OccupationOperatic mezzo-soprano
OrganizationsOper Frankfurt
Websitececeliahall.com

Early life, education, and beginning career in the United States edit

Hall was raised in rural North Carolina. She entered DePaul University's School of Music in Chicago in 2002, and made her opera debut while an undergraduate student at the Opera in the Ozarks portraying the title role in a production of Massenet's Cendrillon (English: Cinderella).[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.[5]

Hall next pursued graduate studies at the Juilliard School in New York City, achieving a master's degree in 2011.[6][1] While a student there, she portrayed four roles with the Juilliard Opera: both Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro[7] and the title role in Handel's Ariodante in 2009;[8] Nero in the school's 2010 production of Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea with Harry Bicket conducting;[9] and Concepción in Ravel's L'heure espagnole in 2011.[10]

On March 6, 2010, Hall made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall performing the "Habanera" from Bizet's Carmen in a Young People's Concert.[11] Later that month, she performed Johannes Brahms's Ophelia Lieder with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall.[12] That same year, she was chosen to appear in a recital at Lincoln Center, with baritone John Brancy. She programmed excerpts from a song cycle by Alan Smith, Vignettes: Ellis Island on texts from oral histories of immigrants in the 1900s, followed by Debussy's Chansons de Bilitis and songs from Mahler's Rückert Lieder.[6] In the summer of 2010 she studied at the Tanglewood Music Center, and portrayed the Composer in R. Strauss's Ariadne Auf Naxos at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.[13][14] She later performed this role again at the Fort Worth Opera (2013)[15] the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (2016),[16] and the Moscow Philharmonic (2017).[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).[3] She made her Met debut as the Second Priestess in Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride with Susan Graham in the title role on February 12, 2011;[17] a role which she recorded for Metropolitan Opera Live in HD.[18] She continued her development as an opera singer at the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (LOC); joining that organization in 2011.[1] Roles she performed with the LOC include Alisa in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (2011),[19] the Second Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute (2011),[20] the Voice of the High Priestess in Aida (2012),[21] the third maid in Elektra by Richard Strauss (2012),[22] and Annio in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito (2014).[23] She was awarded LOC's Brian Dickie Outstanding Young Singer Award in 2012.[3]

In 2012, Hall portrayed the title role in Handel's Teseo at the Chicago Opera Theater.[1] She appeared as the Rhinemaiden Wellgunde in Wagner's Ring cycle at the Seattle Opera in 2013 under conductor Asher Fisch. A reviewer of this production wrote that all three Rhinemaidens "offered both welcome comic relief and gorgeous singing".[24] She returned the following year for Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, alongside Nicolas Cavallier in the title role.[25] She later performed the role of Zerlina at Opera Philadelphia in 2014.[26]

International career: 2014-present edit

In 2014, Hall made her European debut at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Zaida in Rossini's Il turco in Italia.[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.[28] The same year, she portrayed Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville in Toronto with the Canadian Opera Company.[29] In 2015, she performed at the Santa Fe Opera as Ramiro in Mozart's La finta giardiniera;[30] and returned to the Met as Javotte in Manon.[31] She also performed the role of Dorabella that year in a semi-staged performance of Mozart's Così fan tutte with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.[32]

In 2016, Hall used her North Carolina accent to great effect as Ruby in Opera Philadelphia's production of Jennifer Higdon's Cold Mountain,[33] and returned to Lincoln Center for performances as the alto soloist in Mozart's Great Mass in C minor at the Mostly Mozart Festival.[34] In the summer of 2016, she appeared as the Geisha in Pietro Mascagni's rarely performed Iris at the Bard Music Festival.[35] She also returned to her home state in 2016 to portray Rosina with the North Carolina Opera;[36] a role she repeated in North Carolina with the Greensboro Opera in 2018.[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).[52] She appeared as Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in 2017,[53] in a production that Barrie Kosky had created in 2010.[54] She later reprised the role of Dido in Frankurt in 2022.[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. A reviewer of this production described the complete ensemble as young, agile, and with flexible voices.[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.[57] When Mozart's Figaro was given a new production by Oper Franfurt in 2023, the first with the new GMD Thomas Guggeis, she portrayed Marcellina in the premiere,[58][59] alternating with Cherubino,[60] A reviewer from the FAZ noted that she portrayed Figaro's mother with luminous tone as a potentially dangerous rival of Susanna.[58] She performed the title role of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba at the Bockenheimer Depot venue,[61][60] portraying the young man that Mozart conceived at age 15, with a development from "initially somewhat pallid" to the expression of anguish and joy in an "exhilarating" duet.[61]

Since joining Oper Frankfurt, Hall has continued to perform as a guest artist with other performing arts organizations. In 2017, she portrayed Sesto in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.[62] That same year, she created the role of Sorrel in the world premiere of Lembit Beecher and Hannah Moscovitch’s war drama I Have No Stories to Tell You with Opera Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. That work was presented in a double bill with another opera about war, Claudio Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, in which Hall portrayed Clorinda.[63] In 2018, she performed the role of Dinah in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra; a performance which was recorded and later broadcast on NPR station WEKU during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.[64]

In 2021, Hall portrayed Romeo in Opera Omaha's production of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi,[65] and returned to Moscow for further performances with the Moscow Philharmonic; this time as Mozart's Second Lady.[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.[3] She repeated that role in 2023 in a production conducted by Konrad Junghänel at the Komische Oper Berlin, with the arias given in Italian, but the recitatives in German.[66] That same year she performed the title characters Ariodante at the Israeli Opera and Rossini's La Cenerentola at the Boston Lyric Opera.[3]

In May 2024, she is scheduled to perform the title role in Bizet's Carmen with the Austin Lyric Opera,[67] and perform as the alto soloist in Mozart's Requiem with the New York Philharmonic and Musica Sacra under conductor Kent Tritle.[68]

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External links edit

  • Official website
  • Cecelia Hall at IMDb
  • Cecelia Hall discography at Discogs
  • Cecelia Hall / Mezzo-soprano Operabase
  • Meet Our Singers: Cecelia Hall, Zerlina Seattle Opera, October 15, 2014
  • Cecelia Hall (management) wehmeyermanagement.com
  • Ombra mai fu - Handel's Xerxes - Cecelia Hall, mezzo-soprano on YouTube

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cecelia, hall, mezzo, soprano, cecelia, hall, born, 1985, american, operatic, mezzo, soprano, native, north, carolina, hall, trained, singer, depaul, university, juilliard, school, before, becoming, member, young, artist, programs, metropolitan, opera, lyric, . Cecelia Hall born c 1985 1 is an American operatic mezzo soprano A native of North Carolina Hall trained as a singer at DePaul University and the Juilliard School before becoming a member of the young artist programs at the Metropolitan Opera and the Lyric Opera of Chicago She made her European debut at the Aix en Provence Festival in 2014 and became a resident artist at Oper Frankfurt in 2016 a position she remains in as of 2024 She continues to perform as a guest artist in operas and concerts with other organizations internationally She has performed leading roles in the mezzo soprano repertoire including title roles both women such as Purcell s Dido Rossini s La Cenerentola and Piazzolla s Maria de Buenos Aires and men including Cavalli s Eliogabalo Handel s Ariodante Serse and Teseo Mozart s Ascanio in Alba and Humperdinck s Hansel Cecelia HallBornNorth Carolina U S EducationDePaul UniversityJuilliard SchoolLindemann Young Artist Development Program Ryan Opera CenterOccupationOperatic mezzo sopranoOrganizationsOper FrankfurtWebsitececeliahall wbr com Contents 1 Early life education and beginning career in the United States 2 International career 2014 present 3 References 4 External linksEarly life education and beginning career in the United States editHall was raised in rural North Carolina She entered DePaul University s School of Music in Chicago in 2002 and made her opera debut while an undergraduate student at the Opera in the Ozarks portraying the title role in a production of Massenet s Cendrillon English Cinderella 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 Maria de Buenos Aires 5 Hall next pursued graduate studies at the Juilliard School in New York City achieving a master s degree in 2011 6 1 While a student there she portrayed four roles with the Juilliard Opera both Cherubino in Mozart s The Marriage of Figaro 7 and the title role in Handel s Ariodante in 2009 8 Nero in the school s 2010 production of Monteverdi s L incoronazione di Poppea with Harry Bicket conducting 9 and Concepcion in Ravel s L heure espagnole in 2011 10 On March 6 2010 Hall made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall performing the Habanera from Bizet s Carmen in a Young People s Concert 11 Later that month she performed Johannes Brahms s Ophelia Lieder with Ensemble ACJW at Carnegie Hall 12 That same year she was chosen to appear in a recital at Lincoln Center with baritone John Brancy She programmed excerpts from a song cycle by Alan Smith Vignettes Ellis Island on texts from oral histories of immigrants in the 1900s followed by Debussy s Chansons de Bilitis and songs from Mahler s Ruckert Lieder 6 In the summer of 2010 she studied at the Tanglewood Music Center and portrayed the Composer in R Strauss s Ariadne Auf Naxos at the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Symphony Orchestra 13 14 She later performed this role again at the Fort Worth Opera 2013 15 the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 2016 16 and the Moscow Philharmonic 2017 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 3 She made her Met debut as the Second Priestess in Gluck s Iphigenie en Tauride with Susan Graham in the title role on February 12 2011 17 a role which she recorded for Metropolitan Opera Live in HD 18 She continued her development as an opera singer at the Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago LOC joining that organization in 2011 1 Roles she performed with the LOC include Alisa in Donizetti s Lucia di Lammermoor 2011 19 the Second Lady in Mozart s The Magic Flute 2011 20 the Voice of the High Priestess in Aida 2012 21 the third maid in Elektra by Richard Strauss 2012 22 and Annio in Mozart s La clemenza di Tito 2014 23 She was awarded LOC s Brian Dickie Outstanding Young Singer Award in 2012 3 In 2012 Hall portrayed the title role in Handel s Teseo at the Chicago Opera Theater 1 She appeared as the Rhinemaiden Wellgunde in Wagner s Ring cycle at the Seattle Opera in 2013 under conductor Asher Fisch A reviewer of this production wrote that all three Rhinemaidens offered both welcome comic relief and gorgeous singing 24 She returned the following year for Zerlina in Mozart s Don Giovanni alongside Nicolas Cavallier in the title role 25 She later performed the role of Zerlina at Opera Philadelphia in 2014 26 International career 2014 present editIn 2014 Hall made her European debut at the Aix en Provence Festival as Zaida in Rossini s Il turco in Italia 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 28 The same year she portrayed Rosina in Rossini s The Barber of Seville in Toronto with the Canadian Opera Company 29 In 2015 she performed at the Santa Fe Opera as Ramiro in Mozart s La finta giardiniera 30 and returned to the Met as Javotte in Manon 31 She also performed the role of Dorabella that year in a semi staged performance of Mozart s Cosi fan tutte with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 32 In 2016 Hall used her North Carolina accent to great effect as Ruby in Opera Philadelphia s production of Jennifer Higdon s Cold Mountain 33 and returned to Lincoln Center for performances as the alto soloist in Mozart s Great Mass in C minor at the Mostly Mozart Festival 34 In the summer of 2016 she appeared as the Geisha in Pietro Mascagni s rarely performed Iris at the Bard Music Festival 35 She also returned to her home state in 2016 to portray Rosina with the North Carolina Opera 36 a role she repeated in North Carolina with the Greensboro Opera in 2018 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 Zauberflote 2016 40 2023 amp 2024 41 Zerlina 2017 40 Dorabella 2017 42 amp 2022 43 Egla in Zelenka s Il Serpente di Bronzo 2018 44 Vlasta in Weinberg s The Passenger 2018 45 Hansel in Humperdinck s Hansel 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 amp 2022 50 Mercedes in Carmen 2021 51 and Charlotte in Massenet s Werther 2022 2023 52 She appeared as Dido in Purcell s Dido and Aeneas in 2017 53 in a production that Barrie Kosky had created in 2010 54 She later reprised the role of Dido in Frankurt in 2022 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 Gonzalez as Count and Countess A reviewer of this production described the complete ensemble as young agile and with flexible voices 56 Still with social distancing a new 2023 production of Martin s Le vin herbe had Hall in the role of Iseut s mother directed by Tilmann Kohler 57 When Mozart s Figaro was given a new production by Oper Franfurt in 2023 the first with the new GMD Thomas Guggeis she portrayed Marcellina in the premiere 58 59 alternating with Cherubino 60 A reviewer from the FAZ noted that she portrayed Figaro s mother with luminous tone as a potentially dangerous rival of Susanna 58 She performed the title role of Mozart s Ascanio in Alba at the Bockenheimer Depot venue 61 60 portraying the young man that Mozart conceived at age 15 with a development from initially somewhat pallid to the expression of anguish and joy in an exhilarating duet 61 Since joining Oper Frankfurt Hall has continued to perform as a guest artist with other performing arts organizations In 2017 she portrayed Sesto in Mozart s La clemenza di Tito at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 62 That same year she created the role of Sorrel in the world premiere of Lembit Beecher and Hannah Moscovitch s war drama I Have No Stories to Tell You with Opera Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art That work was presented in a double bill with another opera about war Claudio Monteverdi s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in which Hall portrayed Clorinda 63 In 2018 she performed the role of Dinah in Bernstein s Trouble in Tahiti with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra a performance which was recorded and later broadcast on NPR station WEKU during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020 64 In 2021 Hall portrayed Romeo in Opera Omaha s production of Bellini s I Capuleti e i Montecchi 65 and returned to Moscow for further performances with the Moscow Philharmonic this time as Mozart s Second Lady 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 3 She repeated that role in 2023 in a production conducted by Konrad Junghanel at the Komische Oper Berlin with the arias given in Italian but the recitatives in German 66 That same year she performed the title characters Ariodante at the Israeli Opera and Rossini s La Cenerentola at the Boston Lyric Opera 3 In May 2024 she is scheduled to perform the title role in Bizet s Carmen with the Austin Lyric Opera 67 and perform as the alto soloist in Mozart s Requiem with the New York Philharmonic and Musica Sacra under conductor Kent Tritle 68 References edit a b c d e Meyer Graham April 9 2012 Cecelia Hall in Chicago Opera Theater s Teseo Chicago Pat Mikos ed Class notes PDF Sound Investment A Report from DePaul University School of Music 2011 12 12 a b c d e f g h Holden James October 2023 Internationally Acclaimed Mezzo Soprano To Perform in Boston SOCO The Southcoast Magazine of Massachusetts and Rhode Island 47 49 MacMillan Kyle August 20 2007 Racy Eliogabalo gets new life The Denver Post Steiman Harvey August 18 2015 Harris Hall gets steamy with Piazzolla s tango opera The Aspen Times a b Marchioni Tonimarie October 2010 Vocal Arts Honors Recitalists Choose Diverse Programs Juilliard Journal Retrieved February 5 2024 Classical Music Opera Listings The New York Times February 12 2009 Smith Steve November 12 2009 A Condemned Princess Freed With Global Voices The New York Times Anthony Tommasini November 18 2010 Bad Guys Singing Of Love And Power The New York Times Schweitzer Vivien April 28 2011 Objects of Operatic Desire Abundant Money and Men 2010 Mar 06 Young People s Concert Boico ID 10196 Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Archives New York Philharmonic March 6 2010 Schweitzer 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