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                                Sara Mingardo - Alto
                             
                                  
                             
                                A prizewinner of Premio Abbiati (2009), Sara Mingardo is one of the genuine 
                                contralto voices on the music scene today. She collaborated with such conductors 
                                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 on the 
                                concert side, she has a vast repertoire ranging from Pergolesi to Respighi, 
                                through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Mahler. 
                                
                                Future plans: 
                                Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Teatro alla Scala under Diego 
                                Fasolis and in Aix-en-Provence, Caen and in Lille under Emmanuelle Haïm; a 
                                revival of L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala with 
                                Rinaldo Alessandrini; L’ Incoronazione di Dario at the Teatro Regio in 
                                Turin; Mendelssohn’s Elias in Copenhagen; Johannes-Passion with 
                                Musica Saeculorum in Essen and Aix en Provence; Brahms Alto Rhapsody at 
                                the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at 
                                the Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Rome then in Zamora, Budapest and Istanbul; 
                                Mozart’s Requiem with the London Philarmonic Orchestra under the baton of 
                                Natalie Stutzmann; Mahler’s 8 Symphony at the Lucerne Festival; Mozart’s
                                Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra; a recital at the Grand 
                                Théâtre de Genève. |