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                                         Sara Mingardo - Alto 
                                            
                                                January 
                                            7th, Un viaje a Venecia (baroque concert with music by Galuppi, Vivaldi, 
                                            Dall’Abaco)- Convento santa Cruz de la Popa 
                                            January 8th, Música 
                                            sagrada en Nápoles (Pergolesi’ Stabat Mater)- Teatro Adolfo Mejìa 
                                               
                                            
                                            One of the rare voices of genuine contralto on the music scene today, Sara 
                                            Mingardo 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 prestigious Premio Abbiati in 2009. 
                                            Future 
                                            plans: Bach’s 
                                            Mass in B minor at the 
                                            Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano; 
                                            Kindertotenlieder in 
                                            Bologna 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; Caccini’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 Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Lisbon. 
                                            
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                                          Umberto Chiummo - Bass 
                                        January 
                                        9th, baroque concert with music by Corelli, Handel, Vivaldi - Capilla Hotel 
                                        Sofitel Santa Clara 
                                        January 10th, 
                                        Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona - Teatro Adolfo Mejìa 
                                           
                                        After winning the "A. Belli” 
                                        Competition in Spoleto, Umberto Chiummo made his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro, 
                                        staged by Gigi Proietti. Much 
                                        appreciated also for his qualities as an actor, he performs in major opera 
                                        houses and festivals in Italy and abroad, collaborating with conductors such as 
                                        Ivor Bolton, Bruno Campanella, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and 
                                        Wolfgang Sawallisch. Recent engagements include: La Calisto at the Royal 
                                        Opera House Covent Garden, Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in 
                                        Antwerp, Giulio Cesare alongside Cecilia Bartoli with William Christie 
                                        and Les Arts Florissants in Paris. He has recorded Rodelinda, Ariodante, Don 
                                        Giovanni (Telarc), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (BMG) with Roberto 
                                        Abbado, Werther (BMG) under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski. 
                                           
                                         Future plans: Le Nozze di Figaro 
                                        at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro 
                                        Massimo in Palermo; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Orchestra 
                                        Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under Ivor Bolton. |