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.

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.