Sara Mingardo - Alto
January
7th, Un viaje a Venecia (baroque concert with music by Galuppi, Vivaldi,
Dall’Abaco)- Convento santa Cruz de la Popa
January 8th, Música
sagrada en Nápoles (Pergolesi’ Stabat Mater)- Teatro Adolfo Mejìa
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;
Kindertotenlieder in
Bologna 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; Caccini’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 Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Lisbon.
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Umberto Chiummo - Bass
January
9th, baroque concert with music by Corelli, Handel, Vivaldi - Capilla Hotel
Sofitel Santa Clara
January 10th,
Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona - Teatro Adolfo Mejìa
After winning the "A. Belli”
Competition in Spoleto, Umberto Chiummo made his debut in Le Nozze di Figaro,
staged by Gigi Proietti. Much
appreciated also for his qualities as an actor, he performs in major opera
houses and festivals in Italy and abroad, collaborating with conductors such as
Ivor Bolton, Bruno Campanella, Myung-Whun Chung, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti and
Wolfgang Sawallisch. Recent engagements include: La Calisto at the Royal
Opera House Covent Garden, Agrippina at the Teatro Real in Madrid and in
Antwerp, Giulio Cesare alongside Cecilia Bartoli with William Christie
and Les Arts Florissants in Paris. He has recorded Rodelinda, Ariodante, Don
Giovanni (Telarc), I Capuleti e i Montecchi (BMG) with Roberto
Abbado, Werther (BMG) under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski.
Future plans: Le Nozze di Figaro
at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Teatro
Massimo in Palermo; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor with the Orchestra
Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI under Ivor Bolton.
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