Sara Mingardo - Penelope
One of the rare voices of genuine contralto of the music scene today. She is regularly invited by the most important music institutions all over the world, thus collaborating with many of the most prominent artists of our time. Her operatic repertoire includes works by Gluck, Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Rossini, Verdi, Cavalli, Mozart, Donizetti, Schumann and Berlioz. Particularly active as a concert singer, she has a vast repertoire ranging from Pergolesi to Respighi, through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Mahler. She was awarded the Premio Abbiati 2009. Future plans include: Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Penelope) in Paris (under Rinaldo Alessandrini) and in Zurich (under Ivor Bolton); L'Orfeo in Paris again with Rinaldo Alessandrini; Petite Messe Solennelle and Mass in B minor at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini on a European tour; Kindertotenlieder in Antwerp under Dmitri Jurowski; concerts in Paris, Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Prague.
Luigi De Donato - Tempo /Nettuno
Awarded "The Best Bass Voice" at the F. P. Tosti International Competition, he regularly collaborates with the leading exponents of Baroque repertoire. He sang Giove in Argo by Handel with Il Complesso Barocco and Alan Curtis in Göttingen, Hannover and Halle, Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria with Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in Paris, in Toulouse and Leipzig, Landi’s Sant'Alessio with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie in Paris, London, New York and Geneva. He also interpreted some important pieces of the 20th century, such as: Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins with Ute Lemper at the Teatro Manzoni in Bologna, Il Volo di Notte by Dallapiccola and Pulcinella by Stravinsky at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He recently sang Agrippina (Claudio) at the Festival International Musique Baroque de Beaune; Scarlatti’s Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia (Urbano) with Al Ayre Español and Eduardo Lopez Banzo on a European tour. Future plans: Scarlatti’s Il Martirio di Santa Teodosia in Hamburg; Charpentier’s Caecilia, virgo et martyr with Les Arts Florissants and William Christie on tour in France, Belgium, Serbia and New York; Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Tempo and Nettuno) and L’Orfeo (Caronte) with Rinaldo Alessandrini at the Opéra National de Paris. He will make his debut as Zoroastro in Handel’s Orlando with Ensemble Matheus under the baton of J. C. Spinosi on tour in France.
Teatro Regio
Torino
September 18, 2012