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                                         Sara Mingardo - Alto    
                                       
                                        One of the rare voices of genuine contralto of the music scene today. She 
                                        regularly collaborates with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Ivor Bolton, 
                                        Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, 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.
                                        She was awarded 
                                        the Premio Abbiati 2009. 
                                       
                                           
                                        Future 
                                        plans: Rossini’s
                                        Petite Messe Solennelle and Bach’s Mass in B minor at the 
                                        Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano; 
                                        Kindertotenlieder in Antwerp under Dmitri Jurowski and in Bologna and 
                                        Florence under Claudio Abbado; Mendelssohn’s Symphony no.2 “Lobgesang”
                                        at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under Claudio Abbado; Il 
                                        Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni 
                                        Antonini on a European tour; Peri’s Euridice at the Innsbruck 
                                        Festival with Rinaldo Alessandrini; Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria 
                                        (Penelope) in Paris (under Rinaldo Alessandrini) and in Zurich (under Ivor 
                                        Bolton); L'Orfeo in Paris with Rinaldo Alessandrini; concerts in Paris, 
                                        Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Lisbon and Cartagena. 
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