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                                         Sara Mingardo - Alto
 
                                           
                                      One of the 
                                        rare voices of genuine contralto on the music scene today, Sara Mingardo 
                                        regularly collaborates 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. She was awarded the prestigious Premio Abbiati in 2009. 
                                     
                                        Future 
                                        plans: Bach’s 
                                        Mass in B minor at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio 
                                        Pappano; Mendelssohn’s Symphony no.2 “Lobgesang” at the Accademia di 
                                        Santa Cecilia in Rome under Claudio Abbado; Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria 
                                        (Penelope) in Zurich (under Ivor Bolton); L’Incoronazione di Poppea 
                                        (Ottone) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Rinaldo Alessandrini; Mozart’s
                                        Requiem with Accentus under Laurence Equilbey on tour in France; 
                                        Messiah with Orfeo55 under Nathalie Stutzmann on a European tour; 
                                        Kindertotenlieder with the Malaysian Symphony Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur; 
                                        Cherubini’s Medea (Neris) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Pergolesi’s 
                                        Stabat Mater in Basel; concerts in London, Frankfurt, Prague. |