Decca proudly presents the Complete Works by Giuseppe Verdi in a single 75 CD box set.

From the ever-popular “Aida” to the obscure “Alzira,” all 28 of Giuseppe Verdi's operas are here as well as his Sacred Works, Arias, Songs, Ballet Music, the String quartet and other rarities.

Among the gems in this collection is a classic "La Traviata" from 1976, starring soprano Ileana Cotrubas, Domingo and baritone Sherrill Milnes, conducted by Carlos Kleiber. Also, a marvelous "Simon Boccanegra" from a year later, with soprano Mirella Freni, Carreras, baritone Piero Cappuccilli and bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, conducted by Claudio Abbado, and Karajan’s immortal recording “Aida” with Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi and Giulietta Simionato.

Two booklets are included with cast lists, plot summaries and some background on each opera.

This carefully curated edition brings together the best available versions of these works. A once-in-a-liftetime collection of the finest recordings from Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and the former Philips label.

What you get:

- 30 complete operas sequenced chronologically, including two versions of La forza del destino and the two versions of Don Carlo & Don Carlos.

- The first international CD release of Quartetto Italiano’s 1950 recording of Verdi’s String Quartet in E minor.

- An unrivalled compilation of the world’s greatest singers, including Caballé, Carreras, Cotrubas, Domingo, Freni, Horne, Pavarotti and Sutherland.

- An astounding wealth of benchmark recordings, presenting an unparalleled legacy of Verdi conducting featuring Abbado, Bonynge, Chailly, Chung, Gardelli, Gergiev, Giulini, Karajan, Kleiber, Levine, Luisi, Maag, Marriner, Muti, Sinopoli and Solti.

- An informative essay by opera critic and writer George Hall which gives an overview of Verdi's life and career; cue-pointed synopses in English, French and German are included for each opera; full production details and cast lists are presented across two hardback books.

The musical and artistic breadth & depth of 'Verdi: The Complete Works' makes it a truly unique and collectible product - one that is unlikely ever to be surpassed

Contents:

CD 1/2
- Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio
Samuel Ramey, Stuart Neill, Violeta Urmana, Sara Fulgoni, Maria Guleghina
London Voices, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
 
Appendix (revised by Gabriele Dotto)
Act 2
"Al padre io coro" - "Pria che scenda sull'indegno"
Violeta Urmana, Maria Guleghina, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
 
Act 1
"O fedeli! a me diletto"
Violeta Urmana, London Voices, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
 
"Basta, basta o fedeli!" - "Ah Riccardo, a mia ragione"
Violeta Urmana, Stuart Neill, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner
 
CD 3/4
- Un giorno di regno
Fiorenza Cossotto, Jessye Norman, José Carreras, Ingvar Wixell, Vincenzo Sardinero, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, William Elvin, Riccardo Cassinelli
Ambrosian Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
 
CD 5/6
- Nabucco
Walter Krautler, Anna D'Auria, Dora Carral, Bruno Prevedi, Carlo Cava, Giovanni Foiani, Tito Gobbi, Elena Suliotis
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Staatsopernorchester, Lamberto Gardelli

CD 7/8
- I Lombardi
Anthony Dean Griffey, Patricia Racette, Yanni Yannissis, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Jane Shaulis, Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, June Anderson, Richard Leech
Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine

CD 9/10
- Ernani
Leo Nucci, Richard Morton, Linda McLeod, Alastair Miles, Joan Sutherland, Paata Burchuladze, Luciano Pavarotti
Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge
 
CD 11/12
- I due Foscari
Antoniak Mieczyslaw, Elizabeth Connell, José Carreras, Franz Handlos, Piero Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, Vincenzo Bello, Lamberto Gardelli, Katia Ricciarelli
ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra
 
CD 13/14
- Giovanna d'Arco
Robert Lloyd, Keith Erwen, Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, James Levine

CD 15/16
- Alzira
Torsten Kerl, Paolo Gavanelli, Marina Mescheriakova, Jana Iliev, Ramón Vargas, Jovo Reljin, Slobodan Stankovic, Wolfgang Barta
Choeur Du Grand Theatre De Geneve, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Fabio Luisi
 
CD 17/18
- Attila
Jules Bastin, Riccardo Cassinelli, Christina Deutekom, Carlo Bergonzi, Sherrill Milnes, Ruggero Raimondi
The Ambrosian Singers, Finchley Children's Music Group, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
 
CD 19/20
- Macbeth
Giovanni Foiani, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alfredo Mariotti, Maria Fausta Gallamini, Alfredo Giacomotti, Massimo Bortolotti, Sergio Fontana, Shirley Verrett, Carlo Zardo, Stefania Malagu, Piero Cappuccilli, Antonio Savastano, Plácido Domingo
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Abbado
 
CD 21/22
- I Masnadieri
John Harris, Simone Alaimo, Matteo Manuguerra, Arthur Davies, Franco Bonisolli, Joan Sutherland, Samuel Ramey
Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Richard Bonynge
 
CD 23/24/25
- Jérusalem: original version (libr. from 1843 "I lombardi")
Wolfgang Barta, Jovo Reljin, Slobodan Stankovic, Marina Mescheriakova, Hélène Le Corre, Philippe Rouillon, Daniel Borowsky, Marcello Giordani, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Simon Edwards
Choeur Du Grand Theatre De Geneve, L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Fabio Luisi
 
CD 26/27
- Il Corsaro
Alexander Oliver, John Noble, Gian-Piero Mastromei, Jessye Norman, José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé
The Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
 
CD 28/29
- La battaglia di Legnano
Hannes Lichtenberger, Antoniak Mieczyslaw, Nicola Ghiuselev, Franz Handlos, Jonathan Summers, Dimitri Kavrakos, Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras, Matteo Manuguerra, Ann Murray
ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli

CD 30/31
- Luisa Miller
Anna Reynolds, Fernando Pavarotti, Richard van Allan, Annette Celine, Sherrill Milnes, Montserrat Caballé, Luciano Pavarotti, Bonaldo Giaiotti
London Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Maag
 
CD 32/33
- Stiffelio
Ezio Di Cesare, José Carreras, Sylvia Sass, Matteo Manuguerra, Wladimiro Ganzarolli, Maria Venuti, Thomas Moser
ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
 
CD 34/35
- Rigoletto
Plácido Domingo, Olive Fredricks, Hanna Schwarz, Walter Gullino, Audrey Michael, Luigi De Corato, Dirk Sagemüller, Anton Scharinger, Kurt Moll, Elena Obraztsova, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Piero Cappuccilli
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini

CD 36/37
- Il Trovatore
Alfredo Giacomotti, Aldo Verrecchia, Anna di Stasio, Evgeny Nesterenko, Walter Gullino, Plácido Domingo, Rosalind Plowright, Giorgio Zancanaro, Brigitte Fassbaender
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Maria Giulini
 
CD 38/39
- La traviata
Paul Friess, Stefania Malagu, Walter Gullino, Bruno Grella, Alfredo Giacomotti, Ileana Cotrubas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Helena Jungwirth, Giovanni Foiani
Chor der Bayerischen Staatsoper München, Bavarian State Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber
 
CD 40/41/42
- I vespri siciliani
Francesco Musinu, Mario Chingari, Paulo Barbacini, Gloria Banditelli, Ernesto Gavazzi, Enzo Capuano, Cheryl Studer, Chris Merritt, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Giorgio Zancanaro
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Muti
 
CD 43/44
- Simon Boccanegra
F M Piave [and G Montanelli] after Gutiérrez
Maria Fausta Gallamini, Giovanni Foiani, Antonio Savastano, José van Dam, Mirella Freni, Piero Cappuccilli, José Carreras, Nicolai Ghiaurov
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Abbado

CD 45/46
- Aroldo
Sergio Spina, Marina Comparato, Julian Gavin, Neil Shicoff, Carol Vaness, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Roberto Scandiuzzi
Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Fabio Luisi
 
CD 47/48
- Un ballo in maschera
Peter Hall, Alexander Oliver, Christa Ludwig, Peter Weber, Luciano Pavarotti, Margaret Price, Kathleen Battle, Renato Bruson, Robert Lloyd, Malcolm King
The London Opera Chorus, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti
 
CD 49/50/51
- La forza del destino: Original St Petersburg version
Lia Shevtzova, Askar Abdrazakov, Gennadi Bezzubenkov, Yuri Laptev, Nikolai Gassiev, Olga Borodina, Galina Gorchakova, Nikolai Putilin, Mikhail Kit, Georgy Zastavny, Gegam Grigorian
Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg / Kirov Chorus, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
 
CD 52/53/54
- La forza del destino
Jean Rigby, John Tomlinson, Richard van Allan, Petteri Salomaa, Mark Curtis, Agnes Baltsa, Juan Pons, Renato Bruson, José Carreras, Rosalind Plowright, Paata Burchuladze
Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli
 
CD 55/56/57/58
- Don Carlos
Antonio Savastano, Ann Murray, Leo Nucci, Tibere Raffalli, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Romano Gandolfi, Ruggero Raimondi, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Nikita Storojew
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Abbado
 
CD 59/60/61
- Don Carlo
Version 1867 for the Paris Opéra
Tugomir Franc, John Wakefield, Jeanette Sinclair, Joan Carlyle, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Kenneth McDonald, Grace Bumbry, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Martti Talvela, Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Tugomir Franc
Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Georg Solti
 
CD 62/63
- Aida
Piero de Palma, Eugenia Ratti, Fernando Corena, Cornell MacNeil, Arnold van Mill, Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Giulietta Simionato
Singverein Der Gesellschaft Der Musikfreunde, Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
 
CD 64/65
- Otello
Philippe Duminy, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Cheryl Studer, Sergei Leiferkus, Plácido Domingo, Ramón Vargas, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Giacomo Prestia
Choeurs de l'Opera Bastille, Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
 
CD 66/67
- Falstaff
Act 1/Act 2
Leo Nucci, Katia Ricciarelli, Barbara Hendricks, Brenda Boozer, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Dalmacio Gonzales, Francis Egerton, William Wildermann, Renato Bruson, Michael Sells, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Roger Wagner
 
CD 68
- Messa da Requiem
Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela, Joan Sutherland, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti
 
Total Playing Time 46:03
 
CD 69
- Messa da Requiem
Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela, Joan Sutherland, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti
 
- 4 Sacred Pieces (Quattro pezzi sacri)
Jo Ann Pickens, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti
 
Total Playing Time 1:15:56
 
CD 70: Missa Solenne
Messa Solenne 1835 (Messa di Gloria) in E flat major
Ms.reconstructed & attrib.Verdi/Critical Ed.Dino Rizzo
1. Kyrie
2. Christe
3. Kyrie
4. Gloria in excelsis
5. Qui Tollis
6. Cum Sancto
Kenneth Tarver, Juan Diego Flórez, Eldar Aliev, Elisabetta Scano, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Qui Tollis in F major
7. Critical Edition by Dino Rizzo
Juan Diego Flórez, Raffaella Ciapponi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Tantum Ergo in F major
8. Critical Edition by Dino Rizzo
Michele Pertusi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Laudate Pueri in D major
9. Full score reconstructed & attrib. Verdi by Dino Rizzo
Juan Diego Flórez, Kenneth Tarver, Eldar Aliev, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Tantum Ergo in G major (1836)
10. Critical Edition by Dino Rizzo
Kenneth Tarver, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
11. Pater Noster in G major
Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
12. Ave Maria in B minor
Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Messa da Rossini
1869 Version
13. Libera Me, Domine
Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Total Playing Time 1:09:08
 
CD 71
Sinfonia in C
1. Critical Edition by Dino Rizzo (1961-)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Variazioni for piano & orchestra on "Caro Suono Lusinghiero" from "Tebaldo ed Isoline" by Morlacchi
2. Reconstructed Fortunato Ortombina. Revised Riccardo Chailly
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
La forza del destino
St Petersburg version 1862
3. Preludio
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Adagio for trumpet & orchestra
4. Edited Edward H. Tarr
Gianluigi Petrarulo, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Aida
1872 Version
5. Sinfonia
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Giuseppe Verdi/Giacomo Mori
Canto di Virginia with variations for oboe & orchestra
6. Critical Edition by Dino Rizzo
Alessandro Potenza, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
7. Otello, Preludio
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
I Lombardi
Act 3
8. Preludio
Luca Santaniello, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Simon Boccanegra
Original Version, 1857
9. Preludio
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Capriccio for bassoon & orchestra
10. Edited by Fausto Pedretti
Andrea Magnani, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
 
Total Playing Time 1:20:07

CD 72: Verdi Songs
"Album di sei romanze" 1845
1. Il tramonto

2. La seduzione (Romanza, 1839)

"Album di sei romanze" 1845
3. Ad una stella
4. Lo spazzacamino

"Sei romanze", 1838
5. Perduta ho la pace
6. Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata

7. Chi i bei dì m'adduce ancora - Romanza, 1842

"Album di sei romanze" 1845
8. La zingara

9. L'esule - Aria, 1839

"Sei romanze", 1838
10. Non t'accostare all'urna
11. In solitaria stanza
12. Nell'orror di notte oscura

13. Il poveretto

14. Stornello

Ave Maria, per soprano ed archi (Brani giovanili)
15. arranged for Soprano and Piano
Margaret Price, Geoffrey Parsons

Total Playing Time 56:27

CD 73: Verdi Songs, Arias & Other Rarities
1. La Preghiera del Poeta ("Del tuo celeste foco, eterno iddio")

2. A Tuo Bambino
Renata Scotto, Vincenzo Scalera

3. Il Brigidino
Paolo Washington, Vincenzo Scalera
 
4. E' La Vita Un Mar D'Affanni

Giuseppe Verdi / Arrigo Boïto
5. Pietà, Signor (Agnus Dei)
Renata Scotto, Vincenzo Scalera
 
6. More, Elisa, Lo Stanco Poeta
Paolo Washington, Vincenzo Scalera
 
7. L'Abandonnée
8. Sgombra O Gentil
9. Il Mistero
10. Brindisi (1st Version)
Renata Scotto, Vincenzo Scalera

11. Brindisi (2nd Version)
Paolo Washington, Vincenzo Scalera
 
12. Romanza senza parole

13. Waltz in F Major
Roberto Galletto
 
14. "Cupo e il sepulcro e mutolo"
Bruce Ford, David Harper
 
15. Notturno ("Guarda che bianca luna!)
Jennifer Larmore, Bruce Ford, Alastair Miles, Jaime Martin, Antoine Palloc
 
I vespri siciliani
Act 4
16. A toi que j'ai chérie

Attila
Act 3
17. Oh, dolore

I due Foscari
Act 1
18. Cabaletta "Si lo senti, iddio mi chiama"
Plácido Domingo, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
 
Il Lombardi alla prima crociata
19. Come poteva un angelo
Plácido Domingo, Marjorie Dix, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
 
20. "Io la vidi e a quell'aspetto"
Luciano Pavarotti, Antonio Savastano, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Abbado
 
21. Hymn of the Nations (Inno delle nazione)
Luciano Pavarotti, Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, James Levine
 
Total Playing Time 1:07:06
 
CD 74: String Quartet / Ballet Music
- String Quartet in E minor
Quartetto Italiano
 
Jérusalem
Act 3
5. Pas de quatre
6. Pas de deux
7. Pas solo
8. Pas d'ensemble
Antonio de Almeida, Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo
 
Il Trovatore
Act 3
9. Pas des bohèmiens
10. Sevilliana
11. La Bohèmienne
12. Galop
The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
 
Total Playing Time 1:11:17
 
CD 75: Ballet Music
Otello
Act 3
1. Ballet Music
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
 
Don Carlo
Act 3
2. Ballo della Regina
Giovanni Adamo, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly

Aida
Act 2
3. Grand March - Ballet Music

Macbeth
Act 3
4. Ballet Music

I vespri siciliani
Act 3
5. Le quattro stagioni: 1. L'inverno
6. Le quattro stagioni: 2. La primavera
7. Le quattro stagioni: 3. L'estate
8. Le quattro stagioni: 4. L'autunno
Guido Toschi, Giovanni Tedeschi, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
 
Total Playing Time 1:05:24