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Sara Mingardo - Penelope
One of the
rare voices of genuine contralto on the music scene today, Sara Mingardo
collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo
Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Ottavio Dantone, Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner,
Riccardo Muti, Trevor Pinnock, Christophe Rousset, Jordi Savall, Jeffrey Tate
and Rinaldo Alessandrini. Her repertoire includes works by Gluck, Monteverdi,
Handel, Vivaldi, Rossini, Verdi, Cavalli, Mozart, Donizetti, Schumann and
Berlioz. Particularly active in concert, she has a vast repertoire ranging from
Pergolesi to Respighi, through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Mahler. Mrs
Mingardo was awarded the prestigious Premio Abbiati in 2009.
Future
plans: Bach’s B
minor Mass at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Forentino in Florence under
Stefano Montanari; Farnace at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona
under Jordi Savall; L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottone) at the Teatro alla
Scala in Milan under Rinaldo Alessandrini; Messiah with Orfeo55 under
Nathalie Stutzmann on a European tour; Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody at the
Lucerne Festival; Cherubini’s Medea (Neris) at the Grand Théâtre de
Genève; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Festival
International d’Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence and in Lille; Pergolesi’s Stabat
Mater in Basel and in Turin with the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai;
Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Paris and a series of concerts in London and
Prague.
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Gianluca Buratto - Nettuno
A noble and
round voice, Gianluca Buratto is rapidly establishing himself as one of his most
versatile basses of his generation. His recent engagements include: Bach’s B
minor Mass with Savall in Madrid and Barcelona, both Mozart and Jommelli’s Betulia
liberata with Muti in Salzburg and Ravenna and in Wroclaw under Rovaris;
Mercadante’s Virginia and La Bohème at the Wexford Opera Festival;
Ambrosini’s Il Killer di Parole (world premiere), La Bohème and Rigoletto in
Venice; Mozart’s Mass in C minor KV 427 at the Accademia Nazionale di
Santa Cecilia in Rome with Nagano and in Cagliari; Bach’s Johannes-Passion with
Lopez-Banzo in Spain and Germany; Macbeth with Muti at the Salzburg
Festival, Rome and Chicago; Solbiati’s La Leggenda (world premiere) in
Turin with Noseda; Le Nozze di Figaro (Bartolo) in Barcelona with
Rousset; L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Seneca) at the Innsbruck Festival; La
Bohème (under the baton of Chailly) and I Due Foscari in Valencia; Macbeth at
the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Rota’s Mysterium in Naples and Rome; Rigoletto at
the Carlo Felice in Genoa under Luisi; Handel’s Rinaldo and Admeto at
the Theater an der Wien; Rota’s Il cappello di paglia di Firenze at the
Maggio Musicale in Florence; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo with Christophe Rousset
and Les Talens Lyriques in Nancy.
Future
plans: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at
the Salle Pleyel in Paris under Christophe Rousset; La Bohème in
Amsterdam and at the Caracalla’s Bath in Rome; I Puritani at the Teatro
del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Rigoletto at the Festival Internacional
de Musica de Bogotà.
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