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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Artistas semelhantes
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Vivaldi : Glorias RV 588 & RV 589
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Sara Mingardo
Sacred Vocal Music - Lançado por naïve classique em 24 de ago. de 2009
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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater
Sara Mingardo, Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 1 de jun. de 2009
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Pergolesi and Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Sara Mingardo, Gemma Bertagnolli, Concerto Italiano
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 9 de jun. de 2008
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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder & Lieder eine Fahrenden Gesellen
Sara Mingardo, Musici Aurei, Luigi Piovano
Classical - Lançado por Eloquentia em 5 de mar. de 2012
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Ladies Sing Baroque
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 6 de fev. de 2012
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Pergolese, Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gemma Bertagnolli, Concerto Italiano, Sara Mingardo
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Lançado por naïve classique em 3 de abr. de 2007
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Contralto
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 12 de nov. de 2002
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Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Haendel: Arias, Madrigals & Cantatas
Sara Mingardo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 24 de mar. de 2014
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
London Symphony Orchestra, Sara Mingardo, Petra Lang, London Symphony Chorus, Michelle DeYoung, Sir Colin Davis
Opera - Lançado por LSO Live em 9 de jul. de 2001
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Se con stille frequenti (Bononcini, Lotti & Steffani)
Sara Mingardo, Cenacolo Musicale
Secular Vocal Music - Lançado por Arcana em 10 de nov. de 2016
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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 - Lançado por Archiv Produktion em 1 de jan. de 2009
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Stabat Mater (Live)
Silvia Frigato, Sara Mingardo, Federico Ferri, Accademia degli Astrusi
Classical - Lançado por Concerto Classics em 1 de abr. de 2016
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Vivaldi: Stabat mater
Sara Mingardo, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 1 de jun. de 2009
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Vivaldi: L'olimpiade
Sara Mingardo, Laura Giornado, Riccardo Novaro
Opera - Lançado por naïve classique em 1 de jan. de 2007
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Georg Friedrich Händel : Riccardo Primo, Rè d'Inghilterra
Classical - Lançado por Decca Music Group Ltd. em 1 de jan. de 1996
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From Monteverdi to Haendel
Classical - Lançado por naïve classique em 1 de abr. de 2008
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Al Cielo - Duetti da camera
Silvia Frigato, Sara Mingardo, Gambe di Legno Consort
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Lançado por fra bernardo em 10 de out. de 2012
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Respighi: La Sensitiva
Sara Mingardo, Carlo Lazari, Aldo Orvieto
Classical - Lançado por Stradivarius em 27 de mai. de 2010
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Brahms: Viola Sonatas, Op. 120, 2 Gesänge, Op. 91
Sara Mingardo, Luca Sanzò & Maurizio Paciariello
Classical - Lançado por Brilliant Classics em 1 de out. de 2016
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Fano: La mia sera
Classical - Lançado por Stradivarius em 10 de jun. de 2011
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Sarri: L'impresario delle canarie, Coronatemi il crine & Flute Sonata
Classical - Lançado por Bongiovanni em 1 de ago. de 2013
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