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Sara Mingardo was born in Venice where she studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory under the guidance of Franco Ghitti; thanks to a scholarship she completed her studies at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. After winning various international competitions, she made her debut in 1987 in Il Matrimonio segreto (Fidalma) and in La Cenerentola (title role).

A regular guest at some of the leading Italian and international musical institutions, she is one of the leading artists on the music scene today.

He collaborates regularly with conductors of the calibre of Rinaldo Alessandrini, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Myung Whun-Chung, Sir Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haim, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Roger Norrington, Trevor Pinnock, Maurizio Pollini, Christophe Rousset, Jordi Savall, Peter Schreier, Jeffrey Tate and with major international orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Les Talens Lyriques, Academia Montis Regalis.

Her repertoire includes works by Gluck, Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Rossini, Verdi, Cavalli, Mozart, Donizetti, Schumann and Berlioz; particularly active in the concert field, she boasts a repertoire that ranges from Bach, Beethoven and Brahms to Dvorak, Mahler, Pergolesi and Respighi.

Of particular note was the collaboration with Maestro Claudio Abbado in a working partnership that saw Sara Mingardo as the protagonist on important occasions: the Lucerne Festival (Mozart's Requiem, Brahms's Rhapsody for Alto and Kindertotenlieder); Kindertotenlieder and Stabat Mater by Pergolesi in Bologna with the Mozart Orchestra; numerous concerts at the Salzburg Festival and on Italian tours (Bologna, Modena, Jesi, Morimondo).

Winner of two Grammy Awards in 2002 for her performance as Anna in Berlioz's Les Troyens (best opera album and best classical music album), in 2009 the Association of Italian Music Critics awarded her the important Premio Abbiati 2009 for her performance in Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, staged at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini.

Recent engagements include: Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria (Penelope) at the Grand Theatre de Geneve and on tour in Spain with Europa Galante; Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Opera de Montecarlo and the Salzburger Festspiele; Giulio Cesare at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, the Opera de Montecarlo, the Opera royal de Versailles, the Wiener Staatsoper and on tour in Europe with Les Musiciens du Prince; Mozart's Requiem at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in Philadelphia and at Carnegie Hall in New York; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at the Baths of Caracalla; Mahler's Symphony No. 3 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater on tour in the Netherlands with Philarmonie Zuidnederland.

Upcoming engagements include: Falstaff at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa; Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245 with La Cetra Barockorchester in Leipzig; and Giulio Cesare at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari.
Sara Mingardo
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