Mario Sereni

Mario Sereni ( born March 25, 1928 in Perugia ) is an Italian baritone, who appeared at the Metropolitan Opera and other major opera houses in the world from the mid 1950s to the mid 1980s.

Sereni first trained as a mechanic before he was trained in Siena as a student of Mario Basiola at the Conservatory in Perugia, then at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana. He made his debut in 1953 at the Maggio Musicale in Florence Il diavolo nel Adriano Lualdis campanile. In 1955 he sang the role of Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser by Wagner at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. In 1956, he guested at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, on November 9, 1957, he made ​​his debut at the Met as Gérard in Andrea Chénier.

At the Met, he sang in 380 performances in 26 games all the major baritone roles of Giuseppe Verdi as Ernani, Luisa Miller, Il trovatore, La traviata, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Rigoletto, Don Carlos and Aida and La Gioconda, Cavalleria rusticana, Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini and L' elisir d' amore and Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. In 1963 he sang for the first time at La Scala, 1965 at the State Opera in Vienna.

Sereni was a regular guest at the opera houses of Chicago, San Francisco and Dallas as well as the Vienna State Opera, La Scala in Milan, at the Covent Garden in London and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

Sereni sang mainly roles of composers of the 19th century, such as Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi; he also sang roles by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo and Giordano. From non-Italian composers, he had a penchant for Gounod and, although somewhat less, for Bizet. In German language, he sang the role of Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser by Wagner.

Despite his great success Sereni always remained in the shadow of other baritones of his time as Leonard Warren, Robert Merrill, Ettore Bastianini, Rolando Panerai, Piero Cappuccilli Sherrill Milnes or. Mario Sereni is married to Elsa Weisz and has four children. Mario in 1957, Rodrigo 1960, Lucas 1960 and 1967 Marina Today he lives in his native city of Perugia.

Discography (selection)

  • Donizetti - L' elisir d' amore - Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Renato Capecchi, Francesco Molinari - Pradelli - EMI (1966 )
  • Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor - Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Ezio Flagello - Georges Prêtre - RCA ( 1965)
  • Verdi - Ernani - Leontyne Price, Carlo Bergonzi, Ezio Flagello - Thomas Schippers - RCA ( 1967)
  • Verdi - La Traviata - Victoria de los Angeles, Carlo del Monte - Tullio Serafin - EMI (1959 )
  • Verdi - Aida - Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Grace Bumbry - Zubin Mehta - EMI (1967 )
  • Giordano - Andrea Chenier - Franco Corelli, Antonietta Stella - Gabriele Santini - EMI (1963 )
  • Puccini - La Bohème - Mirella Freni, Nicolai Gedda, Mariella Adani - Thomas Schippers - EMI (1963 )
  • Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Victoria de los Angeles, Jussi Björling, Miriam Pirazzini - Gabriele Santini - EMI (1959 )
  • Puccini - La Rondine - Moffo Anna, Daniele Barioni, Graziella Sciutti, Piero de Palma - Francesco Molinari - Pradelli - RCA ( 1966)
  • Puccini - Turandot - Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Jussi Bjöerling, Giorgio Tozzi - Erich Leinsdorf - RCA ( 1959)
  • Opera singer
  • Baritone
  • Italian
  • Born in 1928
  • Man
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