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DVD Video, Sara Mingardo (contralto)
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Sir Colin Davis Anthology
Limited Edition of 5000
Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... —
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Special offer. Claudio Monteverdi: l'Orfeo
Luciana Mancini (La Musica/Euridice), Marianne Beate Kielland (Speranza/Prosperina), Sara Mingardo (Messaggiera), Salvo Vitale (Caronte/Plutone), Marc Mauillon (Orfeo), Furio Zanasi (Apollo), La Capella Reial de Catalunya (early music ensemble), Le Concert des Nations (early music ensemble), Pauline...
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Opera
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
RecommendedFurio Zanasi (Orfeo), Arianna Savall (Euridice), Montserrat Figueras (La Musica), Sara Mingardo (Messaggiera)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
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Building a Library, May 2017, DVD Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Sara Mingardo (Galatea), Antonio Abete (Polifemo) & Ruth Rosique (Aci)
Orchestra Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini, Antonio Florio (conductor) & Davide Livermore (director)
Abete sings well, and conveys that the Neapolitan Cyclops is a far more sinister threat than the clumsy English bully...Ruth Rosique sings Aci with suitably boyish naivety and Sara Mingardo... —
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Mosca, Luca: Signor Goldoni
Barbara Hannigan (Despina), Alda Caiello (L’anzolo Rafael), Cristina Zavalloni (Mirandolina), Sara Mingardo (Desdemona), Michael Bennett (Arlecchino), Chris Ziegler (Baffo), Roberto Abbondanza (Goldoni) & Michael Leibundgut (Othello)
Orchestra and chorus of Teatro La Fenice, Andrea Molino...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative and there is a fine team of soloists, in... —
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Andris Nelsons conducts Brahms
Lucerne Festival in Summer 2014 Opening Concert
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Andris Nelsons
As this finely directed, unfussily shot DVD shows, long and standing ovations confirmed Nelsons's triumph. We see his sentient hands and face incarnate and gleefully make visible the entire... —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Georg Nigl (Orfeo), Roberta Invernizzi (Euridice), Sara Mingardo (Messaggera), Sara Mingardo (Speranza), Luigi De Donato (Caronte), Raffaella Milanesi (Proserpina), Giovanni Battista Parodi (Plutone), Roberta Invernezzi (Eco), Furio Zanasi (Apollo) & Nicola Strada (Solo Dancer)
Orchestra...
Director Robert Wilson takes his inspiration from a Titian painting, Venus with Eros and an Organist, and delivers a series of starkly-lit tableaux - strong geometric shapes framing the highly... —
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Special offer. Vivaldi: L'Incoronazione di Dario
Carlo Allemano (Dario), Sara Mingardo (Statira), Delphine Galou (Argene), Riccardo Novaro (Niceno), Roberta Mameli (Alinda), Lucia Cirillo (Oronte), Veronica Cangemi (Arpago), Romina Tomasoni (Flora) & Cullen Candy (Ombra di Ciro/Oracolo di Apollo)
Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torin, Ottavio...
[Dantone] draws idiomatic, sharply articulated playing from his crack ensemble. Outstanding among the cast are Sara Mingardo, who paints the role of Statira with an expressive palette of colours,... —
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Schubert
Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Javier Camarena (tenor), Paolo Fanale (tenor) & Alex Esposito (bass)
Orchestra Mozart Bologna & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado
the presentation is suave and refined, the camerawork standard for this style of concert performance (ideal for those intent on studying the late conductor's technique). —
