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                                         Sara Mingardo - Alto
 
                                            
                                        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; 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; Messiah with Orfeo55 under 
                                        Nathalie Stutzmann on a European tour; Mahler’s 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 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. |