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CECELIA HALL
Mezzo-Soprano
Hailed by the Financial Times for her “easy flexibility, arresting poise and enveloping warmth,” Cecelia Hall has appeared since 2014 in leading roles on many of the world’s finest stages, including Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Philadelphia and Oper Frankfurt, where she is currently a member of the ensemble. Highlights of the 2022-23 season include title role Handel's Xerxes for the Komische Oper Berlin, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at New York’s Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Lukes’s cond. Harry Bicket with narration by David Hyde Pierce, title role Ariodante cond. Jean-Christophe Spinosi for Israeli Opera and leading roles at Oper Frankurt including Charlotte Werther, Irene Tamerlano, Second Lady Die Zauberflöte and La mère d’Iseult Le vin herbé.
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house and role debut at The Israeli Opera
We are delighted to announce that Cecelia Hall makes her house and role debut in February at The Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv, in the title role of Handel's Ariodante. David McVicar's acclaimed production is directed by Niv Hoffman for this revival conducted by Jean-Christoph Spinosi. Performance dates are 17, 19, 21, 23 and 25 February 2023.
Cecelia then returns to Frankfurt Opera, where she is currently a member of the Ensemble, for performances of Zweite Dame in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte before appearing at the Komische Oper Berlin in the title role of Handel's Xerxes.
For further information on Cecelia's performance of Ariodante, visit The Israeli Opera's website here.
Posted 14/02/2022.
Posted 17/11/2022.
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Repertoire Includes
Concert
BACH
BWV 170 Vergnügte Ruh’, beliebte Seelenlust
BERLIOZ
Les Nuits d’Été
BOULANGER
Psalm 130
BRAHMS
Ophelia Lieder
Viola Songs
CHAUSSON
Chanson perpetuelle
Poème de l’amour et de la mer
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