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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;
                                        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 at 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; Pergolesi’s Stabat 
                                        Mater in Basel and in Turin with the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai; Dvorak’s
                                        Stabat Mater in Paris with and a series of concerts in London and Prague. |