Intende Voci Ensemble
has been founded by tenor Mirko Guadagnini. It is devoted to the repertoire of the XVII and XVIII century, especially a cappella. It debuted in 2016, when the instrumental formation performed Amadigi di Gaula by G.F. Händel at the Piccolo Teatro Studio in Milan. Since 2017, the ensemble has been involved in the performance of the complete Libri di Madrigali by Claudio Monteverdi, at the Church San Maurizio at Monastero Maggiore in Milan. Alongside Monteverdi’s repertoire, the ensemble performs masterpieces from the XX century sacred music, such as the Messa da Requiem by Ildebrando Pizzetti and the Requiem by Herbert Howells.

Mirko Guadagnini
is a tenor, founder, artistic director and concuctor of INTENDE VOCI, and founder and artistic director of Festival Liederìadi.

Tenor, thanks to his warm and versatile voice, his repertoire ranges from baroque to Lieder and to the authors of 20th and 21stCentury. After winning the As.Li.Co competition in 1998, his career has taken flight. He has sung under the baton of many renowned conductors, such as Riccardo Muti, Zubin Metha, Bruno Campanella, Roberto Abbado, M. Whun Chung, Donato Renzetti, Evelino Pidò, J. E. Gardiner, Marcello Viotti, Kasushi Ono, Daniele Rustioni, Claus Peter Flor. In his solo career he has performed in a number of major theatres, like Teatro alla Scala, Paris Châtelet,

Teatro Regio di Torino, La Fenice di Venezia, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Cuvilliès in Munchen, Opéra de Lyon, Seoul Opera, Opéra de Montecarlo, Narodni Divadlo in Prague, Comunale di Bologna, Verdi di Firenze, Comunale di Firenze, Grand Theâtre in Geneve, Comunale di Modena, Seattle Theatre, Opéra de Montpellier, Madrid Auditorio, Opera di Roma…

He has appeared with many internationally recognized orchestras, such as the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Radio France, Freiburger Orchester, Mozarteum Orchester, Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Accademia Bizantina, L’Europa galante, Les Arts Florissants, La Venexiana, Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra del Maggio Fiorentino, I Pomeriggi musicali, Orchestra della Valle d’Itria, La Verdi di Milano.

He debut in the baroque repertoire in 1991 with M. A. Charpentier’s Te Deum. Since then, there have been countless concerts and works performed including over 50 performances of Messiah by G.F. Händel, the Mass in B minor and numerous cantatas by J.S. Bach, rediscovery and execution of world premieres of madrigals by Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, works by B. Marini, B. Marcello and other authors of the Baroque Renaissance period.

In 2005, he made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala in the baroque repertoire as Rinaldo by Haendel conducted by Ottavio Dantone. Again in 2011, 2015 and 2016 he has been singing in Scala in Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria and L’Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi under the baton of Rinaldo Alessandrini.

In 2008, he has been the recipient of a Grammy Award, Choc du Monde and Amadeus Prize thanks to a version of Monteverdi’s Orfeo together with La Venexiana and Claudio Cavina, nominated best baroque opera cd of the year. Together with great maestros such as J. E. Gardiner, W. Christie, I. Bolton, R. Alessandrini, R. Jacobs, P. Neumann, O. Dantone, F. Biondi, F. Bernius, G. Antonini, E. Onofri e C. Cavina he has been studying the baroque repertoire in depth.

He deepens the immense baroque repertoire with great masters such as John Eliot Gardiner, William Christie, Ivor Bolton, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Réné Jacobs, Ottavio Dantone, Fabio Biondi, A. De Marchi, Frieder Bernius, Giovanni Antonini, Enrico Onofri, Claudio Cavina, Peter Neumann.

Guadagnini also boasts a profound knowledge of lieder repertoire. In fact, in 2007 he founded the Festival Liederìadi, the only Lieder festival in Italy, which has hosted the best interpreters of this repertoire at international level and in which almost all the most and least known Lieder cycles from the Romantic period to the 20th century have been performed.

He has also a profound knowledge of modern and contemporary works and authors. Among other works interpreted, in 2014 is the turn of B. Britten’s War Requiem with the Orchestra Verdi in Milan under the baton of conductor Zhang Xian and again in 2018 in South Korea.