Celebrating the work of Italy’s greatest musical dramatist, this set of 12 operas includes definitive performances from some of the finest Verdi singers of our age, in productions which reflect the contemporary richness of our perspective of the composer as both a man of his time, inspired to reflect the familial tensions and revolutionary fervour of his homeland, and also a man of theatrical genius as timeless as his adored Shakespeare, whose anti-heroes Macbeth and Falstaff stand as the poles of tragedy and comedy in this survey of modern stagings.

La traviata (ROH)
Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson, Eddie Wade, Richard Wiegold, Haoyin Xue, Sarah Pring, Neil Gillespie, Charbel Matter, Jonathan Coad
Royal Opera Chorus / The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Antonio Pappano / Director: Richard Eyre

Les vêpres siciliennes (DNO)
Barbara Haveman, Lívia Ághová, Burkhard Fritz, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester, Balint Szabo, Hubert Francis, Fabrice Farina, Rudi de Vries, Roger Smeets, Jeremy White, Christophe Fel
Koor van De Nederlandse Opera / Nederlands Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Paolo Carignani / Director: Christof Loy

Un ballo in maschera (Teatro Real)
Marcelo Álvarez, Violeta Urmana, Marco Vratogna, Alessandra Marianelli, Elena Zaremba, Miguel Sola
Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro Real / Director: Jesús López Cobos

La forza del destino (Mariinsky Theatre)
Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Putilin, Gregam Grigorian, Marianna Tarasova
The Kirov Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev / Director: Elijah Moshinsky

Macbeth (ROH)
Simon Keenlyside, Steven Ebel, Raymond Aceto, Elisabeth Meister Liudmyla Monastryrska, Dmitri Pittas, Nigel Cliffe
Royal Opera Chorus / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Antonio Pappano / Director: Phyllida Lloyd

Don Carlo (DNO)
Robert Lloyd, Rolando Villazón, Amanda Roocroft, Dwayne Croft Jaakko Ryhänen, Giorgio Giuseppini, Violeta Urmana
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra / De Nederlandse Opera Chorus
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly / Director: Willy Decker

Aida (Liceu)
Stefano Palatchi, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armiliato, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Juan Pons
Orchestra & Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Conductor: Miguel Ángel / Director: Gómez Martínez

Simon Boccanegra (ROH)
Plácido Domingo, Mariana Polavskaya, Joseph Calleja, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Jonathan Summers, Lukas Jakobski
Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Antonio Pappano / Director: Elijah Moshinsky

Otello (Liceu)
José Cura, Krassimira Stoyanova, Lado Ataneli, Vittorio Grigolo, Ketevan Kemoklidze, Vicenç Esteve Madrid
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu
Conductor: Antoni Ros-Marbà / Director: Willy Decker

Falstaff (ROH)
Bryn Terfel, Roberto Frontali, Kenneth Tarver, Robin Legatte, Peter Hoare, Barbara Frittoli
Royal Opera Chorus / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Bernard Haitink / Director: Graham Vick

Running time: 34 hours 10 minutes approx
Subtitles:
RIGOLETTO / IL TROVATORE / FALSTAFF: EN
LA TRAVIATA / UN BALLO IN MASCHERA / MACBETH / SIMON BOCCANEGRA: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT
LES VÊPRES SICILIENNES: EN/FR/DE/ES
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: EN/FR/DE/ES/DU
DON CARLO: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/DU
AIDA: EN/FR/DE/ES/CA
OTELLO: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/CA
Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS