![]() This followed her official international debut in that role, in Fontevraud, France. In 1995 she made her first recording (on Polygram Records), singing the title character in Handel's Riccardo Primo, led by Christophe Rousset. 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. Her other competition successes include the Giulietta Simionato Prize at the 23rd Vienna Competition. It was in that Treviso effort that she won first prize in the annual Toti Dal Monte competition. 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.įollowing that success she sang Cinderella in the eponymous Rossini opera, in Treviso and Rovigo, in 1988. ![]() Mingardo was born in the Venetian suburb of Mestre. ![]() 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. Italian singer Sara Mingardo is considered among the more important contraltos of her generation. ![]()
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