Word: tullio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lovely Italian airs occasionally creep into the repertoire of the Egyptians. Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni, as Moses, sounds too muffled and unfocused to convince anyone to follow him into the Red Sea, but the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli play and sing splendidly. Tullio Serafin conducts...
ROSSINI OVERTURES (Deutsche Grammophon). These brief episodes are gems that rank with the wisest and wittiest works of Mozart. In them Rossini displays a full range of musical motifs, from somber reveries to brilliant marches with a Pied Piper fascination. Tullio Serafin conducts the Rome Opera Orchestra with elegance and exuberance...
Anna Moffo Arias (Rome Opera House Orchestra, conducted by Tullio Serafin; RCA Victor). One of the youngest (25) and most gifted of the new generation of home-grown U.S. divas visits some familiar operatic landmarks, examining them with taste, agility and dramatic flair. The voice-silvery in the upper registers, amber in the lower-has rarely sounded surer...
...wealthy burgher Ford. In the second act Ford sang his famous monologue E sogne? a realta? and shortly made his exit. As the orchestra launched into the music of the act's second scene, the audience began chanting an unfamiliar name: "Tibbett! Tibbett! Tib-bett!" Conductor Tullio Serafin waved his orchestra to silence and through the gold curtain stepped a slim young man with a putty-shaped nose to acknowledge an ovation that stopped the opera for 20 minutes...