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                                Sara Mingardo – Alto
                             
                                  
                                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 Rome at the Accademia
                                Filarmonica Romana and in Istanbul. |