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...
VERDI Rigoletto
Studio recording, 1955
Total duration: 1hr 57:57
Rigoletto - Tito Gobbi
Gilda - Maria Callas
Duca di Mantova - Giuseppe di Stefano
Sparafucile - Nicola Zaccaria
Tullio Serafin, conductor
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
BELLINI I Puritani; La sonnambula; Norma (both the 1954 and 1960 recordings)
Studio recordings, Milan, 1953–1960; the 1960 Norma in stereo
Total duration: 9:42:59
Maria Callas as Elvira, Amina and Norma
With Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ebe Stignani, Mario Filippeschi, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Rina Cavallari, Paolo Caroli, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nicola Zaccaria, Nicola Monti, Eugenia Ratti, Giuseppe Morresi, Franco Ricciardi, Christa Ludwig, Franco Corelli, Edda Vincenzi and Piero De Palma
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Conducted by Tullio Serafin (I Puritani and both recordings of Norma) and Antonino Votto (La sonnambula)
Arias and scenes from:
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Gianni Schicchi; Turandot; Suor Angelica
VERDI Macbeth; Nabucco; Ernani; I vespri siciliani; Don Carlo
BELLINI La sonnambula; Il pirata
BOITO Mefistofele
CATALANI La Wally
CHERUBINI Medea
CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur
DELIBES Lakmé
DONIZETTI Anna Bolena
GIORDANO Andrea Chénier
MEYERBEER Dinorah
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia
SPONTINI La vestale
THOMAS Hamlet
Ambient Stereo and stereo studio recordings, 1954-1958
Three-volume collection: PACO225, PACO239 and PACO242
Total duration: 3hr 52:47
Maria Callas, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Philharmonia Chorus
Conducted by Tullio Serafin and Nicola Rescigno
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
LYRIC ARIAS Suor Angelica, Adriana Lecouvreur, Andrea Chénier, La Wally, Mefistofele
COLORATURA ARIAS Il barbiere di Siviglia, Dinorah, Lakmé, I vespri siciliani
LA SCALA SCENES Medea, La sonnambula
Studio recordings, 1954 & 1955
Total duration: 79:15
Maria Callas, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
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