One of the genuine contralto voices on the music scene today, Sara Mingardo collaborated with conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Myung-Whun Chung, Ottavio Dantone, Colin Davis, John Eliot Gardiner, Riccardo Muti, Trevor Pinnock, Christophe Rousset, Jordi Savall, Jeffrey Tate and Rinaldo Alessandrini. Her repertoire includes works by Gluck, Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Rossini, Verdi, Cavalli, Mozart, Donizetti, Schumann and Berlioz. Particularly active in concert, she has a vast repertoire ranging from Pergolesi to Respighi, through Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak and Mahler. Mrs. Mingardo was awarded the prestigious Premio Abbiati in 2009.

Future plans: L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Ottone) at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan under Rinaldo Alessandrini; Mahler's Kindertotenlieder at the Amici della Musica in Florence and a Liederabend at Ferrara Musica with Enrico Pace; Cherubini’s Medea (Neris) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Messiah with Natalie Stutzmann in Detroit; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Festival International d’Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence and in Lille; Mendelssohn's Elias in Copenhagen; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Turin with the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai and in Istanbul; Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in Paris and a series of concerts in London and Lisbon.