Sara Mingardo – Alto

Premio Abbiati 2009, Sara Mingardo is one of the genuine contralto voices on the music scene today, Sara Mingardo collaborated 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. 

Future plans: Messiah in Detroit and Mozart’s Requiem with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, both under Natalie Stutzmann in Detroit; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence and in Lille; a revival of the Incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala with Rinaldo Alessandrini; Mendelssohn's Elias in Copenhagen; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Paris and a series of concerts in London and Lisbon; Johannes-Passion with Musica Saeculorum in Essen and Aix en Provence; Liederabend at Ferrara Musica with Enrico Pace; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Rome at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and in Istanbul.