Riccardo Muti - The Verdi Collection

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Riccardo Muti is the greatest living interpreter of Verdi's music, applauded by the critics and audiences all over the world. This collection includes 11 complete operas, the Requiem and the Four Sacred Pieces offering an immersive experience of Verdi's repertoire. Drawn from the EMI catalogues and covering morethan 20 years of cooperation between Riccardo Muti and the historical English label, each recording includedin this boxset is a legendary masterpiece and an example of the interpretation of Verdi's music. The DVD documentary is a special companion to the CDs as Riccardo Muti himself leads us, in his own words, throughrehearsals, works and concerts, in a fascinating journey into the depths of Verdi's music.

His extraordinary Verdi legacy is also explored in detail in the boxed set's DVD documentary Riccardo Muti conducts Giuseppe Verdi, in which Maestro Muti himself takes viewers behind the scenes in rehearsals and on to thrilling concert performances, on his personal journey through the passion and drama expressed in music by the Italian greatest opera composer.

Drawn from the EMI catalogues (now part of Warner Classics) and spanning more than 20 years of collaboration between Muti and the label, each recording in The Verdi Collection is a benchmark interpretation, featuring opera legends Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Mirella Freni, Montserrat Caballé and Renata Scotto at the height of their powers.

No composer is closer than Verdi to Muti's heart, and the conductor's dedication and integrity have led The New York Times to declare him "the king of Verdi conductors…For more than 40 years; the one who most makes you feel you are hearing the composer's operas for the very first time".