Since writing this, I came across words to the effect that Marcellina's aria is usually sung, when it is sung at all, transposed down a tone into F. This involves some recomposition of the surrounding recitative to avoid a nasty key jolt. This solution would make things more comfortable for a mezzo, maybe still not comfortable enough for a contralto.
I haven't much time or inclination right now to wade through all available versions of this aria to see whether they are sung in F or in the original G, and of course a HIP version, with its lower pitch, would slightly ease things for a mezzo, even in the original key. I did try a few on youtube, including some by specific mezzos such as Larmore, and thus far I didn't find one that was not sung in the original key (I stuck to the versions by well-known singers), but I found a reference to Sarah Walker singing it in F at Covent Garden.
I'm not sure how right it is to transpose Mozart in this way, it's not as if Marcellina is a role like Rossini's Rosina that exists in two versions, and it looks as if Erich Kleiber was not prepared to allow a transposition
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