TUTTO VERDI – this edition to mark the Verdi bicentenary sets standards by which all similar projects will be judged. It includes all twenty-six operas by the greatest Italian stage composer, together with his immortal Requiem, all of them in definitive performances. “This is how Verdi should be played” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on TUTTO VERDI
Commissioned by the Viceroy of Egypt, Aida is Verdi’s only opera to be written for a non-European house. Although set in Egypt in the 19th century BC, it borrows only superficially from the current fashion for exotic subjects but on closer examination emerges as an implacable indictment of nationalism and imperialism.
“This is how Verdi should be played” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on TUTTO VERDI). On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, the Teatro Regio di Parma and UNITEL CLASSICA have joined forces to realize a truly unique project: All of the composer’s 26 operas, as well as the Requiem, were performed and audiovisually recorded in and around Parma. For the first time ever Verdi’s operatic oeuvre, which comprises the labor of more than 50 years, is available in High Definition and Surround Sound. Available for each of the 26 Tutto Verdi operas are also short INTRODUCTIONS with a length of ten minutes each, which not only tell us the storyline of the respective opera work, point out the musical highlights and references, but also put the same into personal and historical context. The TUTTO VERDI projects also includes the DOCUMENTARY “Verdi’s Backyard” by Sergej Grguric – Length 52’ – Cat. no. A00550001
