Nicola Rescigno
Nicola Rescigno was an American conductor, especially associated with opera and with the Dallas Opera, where he worked closely with Maria Callas and other major singers.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Cherubini’s Medea from Covent Garden, with Maria Callas, Jon Vickers, Fiorenza Cossotto and Nicola Zaccaria.
Rescigno’s conducting was practical, singer-aware and steeped in Italian operatic style, the kind of pod...
CHERUBINI Medea
Live recording, 30 June 1959, Royal Opera House, London
Producer and XR Remastering: Andrew Rose
Cover artwork based on a photograph of Maria Callas and Jon Vickers
as Medea and Giasone in the 1959 Royal Opera House production
Total duration: 2hr 14:22
Medea - Maria Callas
Giasone- Jon Vickers
Glauce - Joan Carlyle
Neris - Fiorenza Cossotto
Creonte - Nicola Zaccaria
Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus of the Covent Garden Opera
Nicola Rescigno, conductor
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, La bohème, Gianni Schicchi, Turandot
VERDI Macbeth, Nabucco, Ernani
Ambient Stereo & Stereo studio recordings, 1954 & 1958
Total duration: 78:12
Maria Callas, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted by Tullio Serafin & Nicola Rescigno
SPONTINI La vestale
VERDI Don Carlo
DONIZETTI Anna Bolena
THOMAS Hamlet
BELLINI Il pirata
Ambient Stereo and stereo studio recordings, 1955 & 1958
Total duration: 75:20
Maria Callas, soprano
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Nicola Rescigno