Sara Mingardo – Dafne, Proserpina

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 di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Claudio Abbado; Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Penelope) in Paris (under Rinaldo Alessandrini) and in Zurich (under Ivor Bolton); L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; 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 London, Frankfurt, Prague, Liege and Ghent.

Silvia Frigato - Euridice, Tragedia

Winner of the “Francesco Provenzale” International Baroque singing competition in Naples (2007), she regularly performs at numerous prestigious concerts and festivals, including: Monteverdi Festival in Cremona; Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan; Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de' Turchini in Naples; Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca; Misteria Paschalia in Krakow; KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hannover; Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, to name only a few. She regularly collaborates with such artists as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gianluca Capuano, Claudio Cavina, Ottavio Dantone, Antonio Florio, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken and such ensembles as Collegium Vocale Gent, Accademia Bizantina, La Divina Armonia, La Venexiana, I Turchini, Gambe di Legno Consort, Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca. Silvia Frigato has recorded for Tactus, Brillant and Glossa and her recordings have been broadcasted by RAI Radio 3, Radio France, ORF and many others. She recently sang Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini beside Sara Mingardo at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, Lulier’s Christmas Oratorio in Mauerbach with Gambe di Legno and Paolo Zuccheri (recorded for ORF) and a baroque concert in Venice with the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice under the baton of Stefano Montanari. Future plans: Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (role of Euridice) at the Paris Opera under Rinaldo Alessandrini, in the renowned production by Robert Wilson; La Betulia Liberata in Wroclaw, Corrado Rovaris conducting; Caldara’s Morte e Sepoltura di Cristo in Stavanger under Fabio Biondi; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Basel; Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria in Lisbon.