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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 in Aix-en-Provence,
                                Caen and in Lille under Emmanuelle Haïm and then at the Staatsoper in Berlin; Pergolesi’s
                                Stabat Mater in Bilbao, with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini;
                                a revival of L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala again with
                                Rinaldo Alessandrini; Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Penelope) at the Staatsoper
                                Hamburg under Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Vivaldi’s L’Incoronazione di Dario
                                at the Teatro Regio in Turin and on tour in Europe with Ottavio Dantone; Mendelssohn’s
                                Elias with the Maggio Musicale Orchestra under Daniele Gatti; Johannes-Passion
                                with Musica Saeculorum in Essen and Aix en Provence; Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater
                                at the Musica Sacra Festival in Münster; Mozart’s Requiem with the London
                                Philarmonic Orchestra under the baton of Natalie Stutzmann; Mahler’s 8th Symphony
                                at the Lucerne Festival under Riccardo Chailly; a recital at the Grand Théâtre de
                                Genève. |