ROVIGO – The Ridotto of the theater transformed into a living room to welcome some of the most acclaimed performers on the international opera scene who talk about themselves without filters with Elena Filini, journalist and music critic.
The host of the scheduled appointment Sunday 21 April at 11am, it will be Sara Mingardo.
One of the most famous contraltos of our time with an international career, he studied with Franco Ghitti at the “B. Marcello ”of Venice, his hometown. She has established herself in numerous national and international competitions: she began her musical career playing the title role in La Cenerentola by G. Rossini, as winner of the international competition “Toti Dal Monte” in Treviso. Her recording of Anna in Les Troyens by H. Berlioz won the 2002 Gramophone Classic Music Award, the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and the Grammy Award for Best Classical Music Album and in 2009 she received the Abbiati Prize.
His collaboration with Claudio Abbado was particularly interesting and intense. He has collaborated and collaborates with the major theaters in the world under the direction of masters such as R. Alessandrini, I. Bolton, R. Chailly, M.-W. Chung, P. Daniel, Sir C. Davis, O. Dantone, Sir A. Pappano, Sir JE Gardiner, E. Hàim, M. Minkowski, R. Muti, Sir R. Norrington, M. Pollini, C. Rousset, J Savall, P. Schreier, K. Nagano, P. Boulez, Z. Metha, L. Maazel, D. Gatti, F.-X. Roth, J. Tate and with prestigious international orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, New York Symphony Orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Concerto Italiano, Les Talens Lyriques, Academia Montis Regalis and many others. He is a teacher of Baroque singing at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. In 2023 he teaches at the Accademia Chigiana as part of the Chigiana-Mozarteum Baroque Program.
At the end of the conference an aperitif will be offered by Borsari
