Sara Mingardo - Alto
A prizewinner of Premio Abbiati (2009), Sara Mingardo is one of the genuine contralto
voices on the music scene today. She collaborated with such conductors 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 on the concert side, she has a vast repertoire
ranging from Pergolesi to Respighi, through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and
Mahler.
Future plans: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno in Aix-en-Provence,
Caen and in Lille under Emmanuelle Haïm and then at the Staatsoper in Berlin; Pergolesi’s
Stabat Mater in Bilbao, with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini;
a revival of L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala again with
Rinaldo Alessandrini; Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Penelope) at the Staatsoper
Hamburg under Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Vivaldi’s L’Incoronazione di Dario
at the Teatro Regio in Turin and on tour in Europe with Ottavio Dantone; Mendelssohn’s
Elias with the Maggio Musicale Orchestra under Daniele Gatti; Johannes-Passion
with Musica Saeculorum in Essen and Aix en Provence; Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater
at the Musica Sacra Festival in Münster; Mozart’s Requiem with the London
Philarmonic Orchestra under the baton of Natalie Stutzmann; Mahler’s 8th Symphony
at the Lucerne Festival under Riccardo Chailly; a recital at the Grand Théâtre de
Genève.
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