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                                         Sara Mingardo – Alto 
                                          
                                        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 with Rinaldo Alessandrini at the 
                                        Opéra National de Paris; Mozart’s Requiem with Accentus under Laurence 
                                        Equilbey on tour in France; Kindertotenlieder with the Malaysian Symphony 
                                        Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur; Medea (Neris) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; 
                                        concerts in Frankfurt, Liege and Ghent. |