Sara Mingardo

Sara Mingardo studied at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello in her home city of Venice and at the Accademia Chi­giana in Siena. Since her debuts in 1987 as Fidalma in Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto and as Angelina (La Cenerentola) she has appeared regularly at leading international opera houses and concert venues.

She has worked with conductors in­cluding Rinaldo Alessandrini, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, John Eliot Gardiner, Emmanuelle Haïm, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, Roger Norrington, Maurizio Pollini, Christophe Rousset, Peter Schreier and Jeffrey Tate and with orches­tras and ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Symphony Or­ches­tra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras, Les Talens Lyriques and the Academia Montis Regalis.

Her appearances under Claudio Abbado included Mozart’s Requiem at the Lucerne Festival, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder with the Orchestra Mozart in Bologna, Schubert’s Mass in E flat major at the Salzburg Festival and numerous concerts throughout Italy.

Sara Mingardo sang the role of Anna in Colin Davis’s recording of Berlioz’s Les Troyens, which was awarded two Grammy Awards in 2002. In 2009 she received the Premio Abbiati for her interpretation of Mes­saggera / Speranza in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo at La Scala, Milan.

Recent engagements have included Penelope (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève with Europa Ga­lante; Messaggera / Speranza at the Salz­burg Whitsun Festival and at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo; Cornelia (Giulio Cesare) at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, in Monte Carlo, at the Opéra Royal in Versailles and at the Vienna State Opera; Mozart’s Re­quiem at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, in Philadelphia and at the Carnegie Hall in New York; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at the Teatro dell’Opera and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Caracalla Festival in Rome; Mahler’s Third Symphony at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater on a tour of the Netherlands with the Philhar­monie Zuidnederland; Mrs Quickly (Falstaff) at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and Bach’s St John Passion with the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel in Leipzig.

In the 2025/26 season Sara Mingardo has sung Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgis­nacht under Jordi Savall in San Sebastián, Barcelona and Paris; Cornelia at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia; Orfeo in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the New National Theatre in Tokyo; Beethoven’s Ninth Sym­phony at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari; Bach’s St John Passion at the Cologne Philharmonie and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus at the Opéra de Rouen; and appeared in a Baroque concert with The English Concert under Trevor Pinnock at the Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa.