Mario Sereni in Lucia di Lammermoor Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Mario Sereni as Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor. Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
Mario Sereni (25 March 1928 – 24 July 2015) was an Italian baritone, who sang leading roles at the New York Metropolitan Opera for many years.
Sereni was born in Perugia, Italy. He attended the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena where he was a pupil of Mario Basiola.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.