Sara Mingardo – Alto
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, 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. 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;
Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Penelope) in Zurich (under Ivor Bolton); L’Incoronazione
di Poppea (Ottone) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Rinaldo
Alessandrini; Mozart’s Requiem with Accentus under Laurence Equilbey on
tour in France; Messiah with Orfeo55 under Nathalie Stutzmann on a
European tour; Kindertotenlieder at Lucerne Festival; Cherubini’s Medea (Neris)
at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at
the Festival International d’ Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence; Pergolesi’s Stabat
Mater in Basel and in Turin with the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai; Dvorak’s
Stabat Mater in Paris with and a series of concerts in London and Prague.
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