Sara Pegoraro – sopraan The Italian soprano Sara Pegoraro graduated with honors atConservatorio B. Marcello in Venice and at Istituto Superiore di StudiMusicali F. Vittadini in Pavia; afterwards she studied at ConservatorioG. Verdi in Milan, where she attended the postgraduate course about‘800 and ‘900 Italian Vocal Chamber Music, obtaining highest honors(summa cum laude) and special mention.Further studies took place in Italy with Anna Pirozzi, Federico Longhi,Claudio Desderi, Donato Renzetti and Barbara Frittoli; at“Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum” in Salzburg (Austria)with Alessandra Althoff-Pugliese; in Spain with Montserrat Caballé;with Julius Drake, Bernard Renzikowski and Erik Battaglia for chambermusic repertoire; privately with Fernando Opa Cordeiro.As soloist, she made her debut in Venice at “Festival La Biennale” as Don Ettore in J. Haydn’s La Canterina.Later, she sang various roles in operas by composers such as J. S. Mayr (Donna Rosina), B. Galuppi (Eugenia),W. A. Mozart (Marcellina, Contessa, Donna Elvira, Die Zweiter Dame), G. Verdi (Aida, Alice Ford), G. Puccini(Tosca, Cio-Cio-San).Sara Pegoraro’s concert credits include chamber music repertoire by various composers: G. Fauré, C. Debussy,R. Wagner, F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, R. Schumann, R. Strauss, B. Britten, F.P. Tosti, G. Puccini, O. Respighi, I.Pizzetti, G. Petrassi, F. Alfano, M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, E. Wolf-Ferrari, L. Berio…; she also performed sacredrepertoire by J.S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, F.J. Haydn, G.B. Pergolesi, G. Rossini, C. Saint-Saëns…In 2009, she obtained the Richard Wagner Society Scholarship to attend the “Wagner Festival” in Bayreuth(Germany); moreover she won various International Singing Competitions such as Voci Nuove per la Lirica(Pavia), Primo Palcoscenico (Cesena), Elsa Respighi (Verona), Città di Piove di Sacco…She recorded for Rainbow Classics