Sara Mingardo, une opulente distance à Genève...

By Thomas Muller, 18 April 2016

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“La voix soyeuse de Sarah Mingardo, d’une beauté éclatante.”

Reviewed at L'Opéra des Nations, Geneva on 15 April 2016

Brahms, 2 Songs for Alto Voice, Viola and Piano, Op.91

Wagner, Wesendonck-Lieder

Mahler, Kindertotenlieder

Sara Mingardo, Mezzo-soprano

Diemut Poppen, Viola

João Paulo Santos, Piano

Stutzmann and the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 30th April

In her final Carnegie Hall appearance as principal guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the French conductor leads Schumann’s Fourth Symphony and Mozart’s Requiem.

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Monteverdi’s Orfeo as an enchanting marionette show in Salzburg

Laura Servidei, 28th May

Gianluca Capuano leads Les Musiciens du Prince, Il Canto di Orfeo and a superb cast of Italian early music specialists in a wonderful rendition of Monteverdi’s masterpiece.

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Castellucci’s makeover of Mozart’s Requiem at the Adelaide Festival

Brian Angus, 28th February

A work designed to be performed in church has become a dramatic music theatre event that captured and held me enthralled throughout in a meditation on both death and life.

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Handel at La Scala, and it's a sensation

Renato Verga, 18th October

Carsen's modern mise en scène of Handel's opera did not stand out for originality, but for finesse and elegance and that was substantially appreciated by the audience.

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Spectacular Strauss from the RTÉ NSO

Pia Maltri, 1st December

Two contraltos in one room is a high concentration of contraltos; except that one of them appeared in the role of conductor.

*****

Sara Mingardo leads a strong cast in Hamburg Ulisse

Laura Servidei, 4th November

Willy Decker's production, presented in Zürich in 2014, is revived at the Hamburgische Staatsoper with most of the same cast

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Thomas Muller

Podologue spécialisé en Education Thérapeutique du Patient et Diabétologie, chanteur, administrateur de choeur, fondateur d'orchestre et ancien hautboïste amateur, Thomas est passionné de musique et particulièrement vocale. Toujours sensible aux timbres des orchestres et de la capacité des musiciens de développer un chant musical qui provoque chez l'auditeur une émotion vraie, en dehors de tout intellectualisme.