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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; 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. |