Sara Mingardo
Italian singer Sara Mingardo is considered among the more important contraltos of her generation. Her repertory is broad, encompassing works by composers from Monteverdi to Britten, though she has scored some of her greatest successes in operas and sacred music of the Baroque.
Mingardo was born in the Venetian suburb of Mestre. Though she displayed musical talent early on, she did not develop quickly: after studies in Venice at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory and in Siena at the Academia Chigiana, she made her official operatic debut in Italy only in 1987, in Cimarosa's Il matrimonio segreto, singing Fidalma.
Following that success she sang Cinderella in the eponymous Rossini opera, in Treviso and Rovigo, in 1988. It was in that Treviso effort that she won first prize in the annual Toti Dal Monte competition. Her other competition successes include the Giulietta Simionato Prize at the 23rd Vienna Competition. While most of Mingardo's appearances up to 1989 were at second-tier operatic venues, she began making her breakthrough at the major sites in Italy thereafter, including La Scala and San Carlo.
In 1995 she made her first recording (on Polygram Records), singing the title character in Handel's Riccardo Primo, led by Christophe Rousset. This followed her official international debut in that role, in Fontevraud, France. She reprised this same role later on at the International Festival of Baroque Music in Bonn and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
After that 1995 French debut, she appeared regularly at numerous other major international locales: under Claudio Abbado, she sang Emilia in Verdi's Otello at the 1996 Salzburg Festival. Her U.S. debut was at the 2000 Santa Fe Opera Festival production of Rossini's Ermione, where she sang Anromaca.
Mingardo has developed a strong international following over the years and has thus been in demand on recordings. Two solo albums appeared in 2003 and 2004, respectively, on the Opus III label. The first, titled Sara Mingardo, featured works by Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, and Handel, and the second, works by Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Handel, and others. Other recordings include Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Vivaldi's Stabat Mater and Armida, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and Verdi's Falstaff. Her 2002 recording of Berlioz's Les Troyens won a Gramophone Award and Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Album.
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ladies Sing Baroque
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Feb 6, 2012
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Contralto
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Nov 12, 2002
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder & Lieder eine Fahrenden Gesellen
Sara Mingardo, Musici Aurei, Luigi Piovano
Classical - Released by Eloquentia on Mar 5, 2012
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
London Symphony Orchestra, Sara Mingardo, Petra Lang, London Symphony Chorus, Michelle DeYoung, Sir Colin Davis
Opera - Released by LSO Live on Jul 9, 2001
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Se con stille frequenti (Bononcini, Lotti & Steffani)
Sara Mingardo, Cenacolo Musicale
Secular Vocal Music - Released by Arcana on Nov 10, 2016
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Stabat Mater (Live)
Silvia Frigato, Sara Mingardo, Federico Ferri, Accademia degli Astrusi
Classical - Released by Concerto Classics on Apr 1, 2016
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Georg Friedrich Händel : Riccardo Primo, Rè d'Inghilterra
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on Jan 1, 1996
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Pergolesi: Stabat mater; Violin Concerto; Salve Regina in C minor
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado, Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo, Julia Kleiter, Giuliano Carmignola
Classical - Released by Archiv Produktion on Jan 1, 2009
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From Monteverdi to Haendel
Classical - Released by naïve classique on Apr 1, 2008
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Al Cielo - Duetti da camera
Silvia Frigato, Sara Mingardo, Gambe di Legno Consort
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by fra bernardo on Oct 10, 2012
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Respighi: La Sensitiva
Sara Mingardo, Carlo Lazari, Aldo Orvieto
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on May 27, 2010
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Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120, 2 Gesänge, Op. 91
Sara Mingardo, Luca Sanzò & Maurizio Paciariello
Classical - Released by Brilliant Classics on Oct 1, 2016
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Fano: La mia sera
Classical - Released by Stradivarius on Jun 10, 2011
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Sarri: L'impresario delle canarie, Coronatemi il crine & Flute Sonata
Classical - Released by Bongiovanni on Aug 1, 2013
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Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Ruth Rosique, Sara Mingardo, Antonio Abete, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pieta de'Turchini, Antonio Florio
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by Dynamic on May 24, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo