It‘s an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to Verona every summer: the opera season at the ancient Roman Arena. One of the highlights of the 2006 season was the riveting production of Puccini‘s “Tosca“ by Argentine director Hugo de Ana. Nearly 15,000 spectators regularly filled the amphitheater for the performances of the Puccini favorite with a stellar cast – Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Álvarez and Ruggero Raimondi – under the baton of Daniel Oren. “An altogether perfect staging, with the director exploiting to the fullest the vast space of the amphitheater and designing grandiose scenes and magnificent costumes,“ wrote Italian daily Corriere della Sera
Tosca
A superlative staging of Puccini’s Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana brought to you from the world-famous Arena di Verona and complete with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands! The popular tragedy is sung by a dream team cast of excellent singer-actors and conducted by long-established Arena di Verona conductor Daniel Oren.
The recording captures one of those special Verona summer evenings, when the audience fills the historic circle in expectation of the enjoyment of an open-air opera performance. Verona’s amphitheatre, known as the ‘arena’, provides an atmospheric setting for the summer festival. To view an opera in the former amphitheatre, the second largest of its kind after the Colosseum in Rome, can truly be regarded as an impressive experience. The TV transmission, however, provides a closer look at the stage and the singers and brings this dramatic opera directly to the home viewer.
Tutto Verdi – The Complete Operas
Operas: Oberto, Un giorno di regno, Nabucco, I Lombardi, Ernani, I due Foscari, Giovanna d´Arco, Alzira, Attila, Macbeth, I masnadieri, Il corsaro, La Battaglia di Legnano, Luisa Miller, Stiffelio, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, I vespri siciliani, Simon Boccanegra, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlo, Aida, Otello, Falstaff. “This is how Verdi should be played.” FAZ Including all 26 Verdi Operas + Requiem + BONUS: 10 mins introductions of each opera + documentary “Verdi´s Backyard” + booklet 280 pages
Tutto Verdi Highlights
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
Tutto Verdi – The Operas Vol. 2, 1847 – 1853
Il Trovatore
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
Love and revenge are fatally interwoven in Il trovatore, and barely any of the characters survives the sombre action. Based on a Spanish play in the tradition of gothic horror, the work was written in 1851–52 and proved to be a triumph for Verdi. Within only a few years it had been performed in major opera houses all over the world and remains one of the most popular operas in the international repertory.
Tutto Verdi – The Complete Operas
Tutto Verdi – for the first time all 26 operas are available on DVD and Blu-ray in HD and Surround Sound.
“This is how Verdi should be played.” FAZ
Best of Verdi Arias
La traviata
1. È strano! È strano! … Ah, fors’è lui … Sempre libera
2. Lunge da lei … De’ miei bollenti spiriti
3. Di Provenza il mar, il suol
Rigoletto
4. Questa o quella
5. Gualtier Maldè … Caro nome che il mio cor
6. Cortigiani, vil razza dannata
7. La donna è mobile
Don Carlo
8. Fontainebleau! … Io la vidi e al suo sorriso
9. Ah, più mai non vedrò la regina! … O don fatale
Aida
10. Se quel guerrier io fossi! … Celeste Aida
11. Ritorna vincitor! … Numi, pietà del mio soffrir!
Luisa Miller
12. Quando le sere al placido
Il trovatore
13. Stride la vampa!
14. Ah! Sì, ben mio … L’onda de’ suoni mistici … Di quella pira
I vespri siciliani
15. Mercé, dilette amiche
Un ballo in maschera
16. Forse la soglia attinse … Ma se m’è forza perderti
La forza del destino
17. Pace! Pace, mio Dio!
18. La vita è inferno all’infelice … O tu che in seno agli angeli
Otello
19. Piangea cantando nell’erma landa … Ave Maria, piena di grazia
20. Niun mi tema
Tutto Verdi: Simon Boccanegra, Luisa Miller, Giovanna d’Arco, Il Corsaro, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Nabucco, I due Foscari, Un giorno di regno
On the occasion of the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi in 2013 one of the most important opera houses in Italy, The Teatro Regio in Parma, performes Verdi’s complete operas. As co-producer of this project, Unitel presents the operas in High Definition including 5.1 sound. An exceptional and unique project to honour the great composer! Already available are: ‘Simon Boccanegra’ (155′), ‘Luisa Miller’ (146′), ‘Giovanna d’Arco’ (130′), ‘Il Corsaro’ (90′),’ I Lombardi alla prima crociata’ (130′),’ Nabucco’ (132′),’ I due Foscari’ (114′), ‘Un giorno di regno’ (120′)