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, Ottavio Dantone, 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; Mendelssohn’s Symphony no.2 “Lobgesang” at the Accademia
di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Claudio Abbado; Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria
(Penelope) in Zurich (under Ivor Bolton); L’Incoronazione di Poppea
(Ottone) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Rinaldo Alessandrini; 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,
with I Musici Aurei and M° Piovano in Perugia and at Lucerne Festival;
Cherubini’s Medea (Neris) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Pergolesi’s
Stabat Mater in Basel and in Turin with the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai;
and a series of concerts in London and Prague.
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