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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: 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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