Has there ever been an Italian tenor as generously gifted by nature as Franco Corelli? Corelli’s virile tone and movie star looks combined to seduce audiences around the world over a period of more than twenty years. Opera lovers who want to understand the Italian term 'squillo' (ring) need only listen to the viscerally thrilling climatic notes of any Corelli recording made in his prime.

Happily, Corelli bequeathed posterity a rich treasury of commercial and live recordings, and many of his greatest are collected on this super budget 16 CD box set.

Contents:
CD 1-2 Bellini: Norma
Cast:
- Anita Cerquetti (Norma)
- Miriam Pirazzini (Adalgisa)
- Franco Corelli (Pollione)
- Giulio Neri (Oroveso)
- Giannella Borelli (Clotilde)
- Piero De Palma (Flavio)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma / Gabriele Santini
Recorded Rome, 1958

CD 3-4 Verdi: Aida
Cast:
- Gabriella Tucci (Aida)
- Franco Corelli (Radamès)
- Irene Dalis (Amneris)
- Cornell MacNeil (Amonasro)
- Giorgio Tozzi (Ramphis)
- Luigi Sgarro (Il Re di Egitto)
- Carlotta Ordassy (Una Sacerdotessa)
- Robert Nagy (Un Messaggero)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / George Schick
Recorded New York, 1962

CD 5-6 Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Cast:
- Franco Corelli (Andrea Chénier)
- Ettore Bastianini (Carlo Gérard)
- Renata Tebaldi (Madeleine di Coigny)
- Margarethe Sjöstedt (La mulatta Bersi)
- Elisabeth Höngen (La Contessa di Coigny)
- Hilde Konetzni (Madelon)
- Edmund Hurshell (Roucher)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Lovro von Matacic
Recorded Vienna, 1960

CD 7-8 Verdi: Don Carlo
Cast:
- Franco Corelli (Don Carlo)
- Jerome Hines (Filippo II)
- Maria Curtis Verna (Elisabetta)
- Mario Sereni (Rodrigo)
- Irene Dalis (Eboli)
- Hermann Uhde (Il Grande Inquisitore)
- Luigi Sgarro (Un Frate)
- Joan Wall (Tebaldo)
- Gabor Carelli (Il Conte di Lerma)
- Robert Nagy (Un Araldo Reale)
- Martina Arroyo (Una voce dal cielo)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra / Nino Verchi
Recorded New York, 1961

CD 9-10 Verdi: Il Trovatore
Cast:
- Franco Corelli (Manrico)
- Giulietta Simionato (Azucena)
- Leontyne Price (Leonora)
- Ettore Bastianini (Conte di Luna)
- Nicola Zaccaria (Ferrando)
- Laurence Dutoit (Ines)
- Siegfried Rudolf Frese (Ruiz)
- Rudolf Zimmer (Un vecchio zingara)
- Kurt Equiluz (Un messo)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper / Herbert von Karajan
Recorded 1962

CD 11-12 Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Cast:
- Jorge Giorgio Algorta (Il Marchese di Calatrava)
- Renata Tebaldi (Leonora di Vargas)
- Ettore Bastianini (Don Carlo)
- Franco Corelli (Don Alvaro)
- Oralia Domínguez (Preziosilla)
- Renato Capecchi (Fra Melitone)
- Anna Di Stasio (Curra)
- Boris Christoff (Padre Guardiano)
- Mariano Caruso (Mastro Trabuco)
- Gianni Bardi (Un Chirurgo)
- Giuseppe Forgione (Un Alcalde)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli / Francesco Molinari Pradelli
Recorded Naples, 1958

CD 13-14 Puccini: Tosca
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra / Kurt Adler
Recorded New York, 1962

CD 15-16 Puccini: Turandot
Cast:
- Franco Corelli (Calaf)
- Lucilla Udovich (Turandot)
- Renata Mattioli (Liù)
- Mario Borriello (Ping)
- Mario Carlin (Pang)
- Renato Ercolani (Pong)
- Plinio Clabassi (Timur)
- Nino del Sole (L'imperatore Altoum)
- Teodoro Rovetta (Un mandarino)
RAI Milano / Fernando Previtali
Recorded Milan, 1958