Sara Mingardo - Neris

Premio Abbiati 2009, Sara Mingardo is one of the genuine contralto voices on the music scene today, Sara Mingardo collaborated 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. Future plans: Messiah in Detroit and Mozart’s Requiem with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, both under Natalie Stutzmann in Detroit; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence and in Lille; a revival of the Incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro alla Scala with Rinaldo Alessandrini; Mendelssohn's Elias in Copenhagen; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Paris and a series of concerts in London and Lisbon; Johannes-Passion with Musica Saeculorum in Essen and Aix en Provence; Liederabend at Ferrara Musica with Enrico Pace; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Turin with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, in Rome at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and in Istanbul.

Grazia Doronzio - Glauce

Italian soprano Grazia Doronzio is a recent graduate of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

The 2013-2014 season sees her return to Oper Frankfurt as Mimì in La Bohème, Nannetta in Falstaff  followed by her house debut as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with the Hamburgische Staatsoper. Last season, Ms. Doronzio returned to Michigan Opera Theater for Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, followed by an important debut with Oper Frankfurt as Suzel in L’amico Frtiz. In the spring of 2012 she performed Mimì in La Bohème with Angers Nantes Opéra, Anna in a concert performance of Puccini’s Le Villi at the Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Liù in Turandot with Seattle Opera (debut) and followed by Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Palau de les Arts in Valencia. Mrs. Doronzio has recently gained great success as Mimì in La Bohème at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, as Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Zerlina in Don Giovanni in Milwaukee, as Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Regio in Turin and as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore in Düsseldorf.

Plans include: Bohème with the German Radio Symphony Orchestra in Saarbrücken.