Sara Mingardo

One of the few genuine contraltos performing today, Sara Mingardo is a much sought-after and acclaimed interpreter of a remarkably wide repertory. She works regularly with eminent conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Paul Daniel, John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haïm, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Roger Norrington, Trevor Pinnock, Christophe Rousset and Jordi Savall, and with internationally-renowned orchestras and ensembles that include the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, Les Musiciens du Louvre, the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists, Concerto Italiano, Les Talens Lyriques and the Academia Montis Regalis. She enjoyed an especially long-standing and productive collaboration with Claudio Abbado, who regularly chose her to sing in prestigious opera productions, concerts and recordings.

Sara Mingardo is particularly active on the concert platform, with a repertory that reaches from Pergolesi to Respighi, and that also includes pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák and Mahler among others. Her operatic repertory includes works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Schumann and Berlioz.

Sara Mingardo studied with Franco Ghitti at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in her home city of Venice, and completed her studies as a scholar at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She won several national and international singing competitions, and made her stage debut as Fidalma (Il matrimonio segreto), followed by the title role of La Cenerentola. The recording of Les Troyens in which she sang the role of Anna under Colin Davis was awarded two Grammys in 2001. In 2009 the Association of Italy’s Music Critics awarded her the prestigious Premio Abbiati.

Sara Mingardo is particularly active on the concert platform, with a repertory that reaches from Pergolesi to Respighi, and that also includes pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Dvořák and Mahler among others. Her operatic repertory includes works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Schumann and Berlioz.

Sara Mingardo studied with Franco Ghitti at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in her home city of Venice, and completed her studies as a scholar at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. She won several national and international singing competitions, and made her stage debut as Fidalma (Il matrimonio segreto), followed by the title role of La Cenerentola. The recording of Les Troyens in which she sang the role of Anna under Colin Davis was awarded two Grammys in 2001. In 2009 the Association of Italy’s Music Critics awarded her the prestigious Premio Abbiati.