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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; L’ 
                                        Incoronazione di Dario (Argene) at the Musikfesten in Bremen; a 
                                        Liederabend in Reggio Emilia with Alexander Lonquich; Mendelssohn’s 
                                        Symphony no.2 “Lobgesang” at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under 
                                        Claudio Abbado; Caccini’s Euridice at the Innsbruck Festival with Rinaldo 
                                        Alessandrini; Handel’s La Resurrezione under René Jacobs on a European 
                                        tour; 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; Messiah with Orfeo55 
                                        under Nathalie Stutzmann on a European tour; Kindertotenlieder with the 
                                        Malaysian Symphony Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur; Cherubini’s Medea (Neris) 
                                        at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Basel; 
                                        concerts in Frankfurt, Liege and Ghent. |