Tullio Serafin
Tullio Serafin was an Italian conductor, one of the great opera conductors of the twentieth century. He was especially associated with La Scala, the Italian repertory and the careers of singers including Maria Callas.
In the Pristine catalogue he appears extensively in Bellini, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Donizetti and Cherubini, including many central Callas recordings.
Serafin’s conducting combined theatrical instinct, singer-awa...
PUCCINI Turandot
Studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 1hr 58:00
Turandot - Maria Callas
Liù - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Calaf - Eugenio Fernandi
Altoum - Giuseppe Nessi
Timur - Nicola Zaccaria
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Tullio Serafin
BELLINI Norma
Stereo studio recording, 1960
Total duration: 2hr 41:26
Norma - Maria Callas
Adalgisa - Christa Ludwig
Pollione - Franco Corelli
Oroveso - Nicola Zaccaria
Clotilde - Edda Vincenzi
Flavio - Piero De Palma
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
Studio recording, 1953
Total duration: 2hr 19:58
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Tullio Serafin, conductor
BELLINI Norma
Studio recording, 1954
Total duration: 2hr 40:22
Norma - Maria Callas
Adalgisa - Ebe Stignani
Pollione - Mario Filippeschi
Oroveso - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Clotilde - Rina Cavallari
Flavio - Paolo Caroli
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
CHERUBINI Medea
Studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 1hr 58:08
Medea - Maria Callas
Glauce - Renata Scotto
Neris - Miriam Pirazzini
Giasone - Mirto Picchi
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor
Stereo studio recording, 1959
Total duration: 1hr 50:50
Lucia - Maria Callas
Edgardo - Ferruccio Tagliavini
Enrico - Piero Cappuccilli
Raimondo - Bernard Ladysz
Arturo - Leonard del Ferro
Alisa - Margreta Elkins
Normanno - Renzo Casellato
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Tullio Serafin
