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...
DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor
Studio recordings, 1953 and 1949
Total duration: 2hr 12:58
Giuseppe Di Stefano - Edgardo
Tito Gobbi - Enrico
Chorus & Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale, Florence
Tullio Serafin, conductor
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Arturo Basile, conductor
Recorded in Milan, 1954
Total duration: 73:12
Giuseppe di Stefano
Tito Gobbi
Nicola Monti
Rolando Panerai
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Studio recording, 1953
Total duration: 77:25
Giuseppe di Stefano - Turridu
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Tullio Serafin, conductor
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut
Studio recording, 1957
Total duration: 2hr 0:35
Manon Lescaut - Maria Callas
Chevalier des Grieux - Giuseppe di Stefano
Lescaut - Giulio Fioravanti
Geronte di Ravoir - Franco Calabrese
Edmondo - Dino Formichini
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano
conducted by Tullio Serafin
VERDI Aïda
Studio recording, 1955
Total duration: 2hr 24:40
Maria Callas - Aïda
Richard Tucker - Radamès
Fedora Barbieri - Amneris
Tito Gobbi - Amonasro
Giuseppe Modesti - Ramfis
Nicola Zaccaria - Il re d'Egitto
Elvira Galassi - Una sacerdotessa
Franco Ricciardi - Un messaggero
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
VERDI La Forza del Destino
Studio recording, 1954
Total duration: 2hr 45:00
Donna Leonora - Maria Callas
Don Alvaro - Richard Tucker
Don Carlo di Vargas - Carlo Tagliabue
Il Padre Guardiano - Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Preziosilla - Elena Nicolai
Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
