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                                Sara Mingardo - Neris
                             
                             
                                Premio Abbiati 2009, Sara Mingardo is one of the genuine contralto voices 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. Future plans:
                                Messiah in Detroit and Mozart’s Requiem with the London
                                Philharmonic Orchestra, both under Natalie Stutzmann in Detroit; Il Trionfo
                                    del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique
                                in Aix-en-Provence and in Lille; a revival of the Incoronazione di Poppea at
                                the Teatro alla Scala with Rinaldo Alessandrini; Mendelssohn's Elias in
                                Copenhagen; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Paris and a series of concerts
                                in London and Lisbon; Johannes-Passion with Musica Saeculorum in Essen and
                                Aix en Provence; Liederabend at Ferrara Musica with Enrico Pace; Pergolesi’s
                                Stabat Mater in Turin with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, in
                                Rome at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and in Istanbul. 
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                                Grazia Doronzio - Glauce
                             
                             
                                Italian soprano Grazia Doronzio is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s
                                prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. 
                                The 2013-2014 season sees her return to Oper Frankfurt as Mimì in La Bohème,
                                Nannetta in Falstaff  followed by her house debut as Pamina in
                                Die Zauberflöte with the Hamburgische Staatsoper. Last season, Ms. Doronzio
                                returned to Michigan Opera Theater for Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro,
                                followed by an important debut with Oper Frankfurt as Suzel in L’amico Frtiz.
                                In the spring of 2012 she performed Mimì in La Bohème with Angers
                                Nantes Opéra, Anna in a concert performance of Puccini’s Le Villi at
                                the Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Liù in Turandot with Seattle Opera (debut)
                                and followed by Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Palau de les Arts
                                in Valencia. Mrs. Doronzio has recently gained great success as Mimì in La Bohème at
                                the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, as Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore at
                                the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Milwaukee,
                                as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Regio in Turin and as Adina
                                in L’Elisir d’Amore in Düsseldorf. 
                                Plans include: Bohème with the German Radio Symphony Orchestra
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