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.

Plans include: 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 Madrid, with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone; 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; 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; series of baroque concerts with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini at the Carnegie Hall in New York.