Sara Mingardo - Alto

One of the rare voices of genuine contralto of the music scene today. She is regularly invited by the most important music institutions all over the world, thus collaborating with many of the most prominent artists of our time. Her operatic repertoire includes works by Gluck, Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Rossini, Verdi, Cavalli, Mozart, Donizetti, Schumann and Berlioz. Particularly active as a concert singer, she has a vast repertoire ranging from Pergolesi to Respighi, through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Mahler. She was awarded the Premio Abbiati 2009.

Future plans include: Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Penelope) in Paris and Turin (both under Rinaldo Alessandrini) and in Zurich (under Ivor Bolton); L'Orfeo in Paris (under Rinaldo Alessandrini); Petite Messe Solennelle at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini on a European tour; Kindertotenlieder in Antwerp under Dmitri Jurowski; concerts in Paris, Lisbon, Prague.