Sara Mingardo - Alto

One of the rare voices of genuine contralto of the music scene today. She 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 Premio Abbiati 2009.

Future plans: Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and Bach’s Mass in B minor at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome under Antonio Pappano; Kindertotenlieder in Antwerp under Dmitri Jurowski and in Bologna and Florence under Claudio Abbado; Mendelssohn’s Symphony no.2 “Lobgesang” at the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome under Claudio Abbado; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini on a European tour; Peri’s Euridice at the Innsbruck Festival with Rinaldo Alessandrini; Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Penelope) in Paris (under Rinaldo Alessandrini) and in Zurich (under Ivor Bolton); L'Orfeo in Paris with Rinaldo Alessandrini; concerts in Paris, Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Lisbon and Cartagena.