LUCIANO PAVAROTTI: THE COMPLETE OPERAS (101 CDS)

Decca marks this occasion to marvel once again at the sheer quality of the voice of ‘The People’s Tenor’ with a 101-disc collection presenting every role he ever recorded and performed. Every role since his debut recording of La Bohème in 1961 is included, allowing critics, collectors and opera lovers once more to appreciate his truly exceptional gifts. Every single opera is presented in the best possible audio quality, remastered at Abbey Road under the supervision of former Decca engineers.

• 95 CDs + 6 Blu-ray Audio discs in original jackets

• Presenting EVERY role ever performed, brought together for the first time

• Complete opera recordings from Decca, DG and Philips

• Includes two opera recordings from EMI/Warner Classics: L’amico Fritz and Don Carlo

• 34 complete operas PLUS a number of operas he recorded more than once

• Also included are the stellar recordings of Verdi’s Requiem and Rossini’s Stabat Mater

• Recordings remastered at Abbey Road and presented in the best possible quality. 21 analogue recordings now in definitive 24-bit transfers

• Includes his debut performance of La Bohème, Modena, 1961

• PLUS Six iconic performances in true 24-bit (Blu-ray Audio)

• Hardback book with new essay by James Jolly, numerous photographs from his career, press clippings and reminiscences from collaborators such as Zubin Mehta and Mirella Freni

• Hi-gloss lamination on outer box

• Wallets with spines

• Original Jackets

“It was always a pure joy to make music with Luciano Pavarotti as he was not only perfectly prepared - which inspired everybody involved - but our close contact no matter if on stage or during a recording was simply ideal. His humility always helped in every project to solve any problem that might have occurred.” Zubin Mehta

“Pavarotti’s story is also the Decca story as – and unusually – artist and record company worked hand-in-hand for 45 years until the singer's death in 2007” James Jolly (from the accompanying book)

Decca, the Opera Company, has always invested infinite energy and enormous care on its productions, marrying the greatest casts, experienced opera orchestras and great conductors with its unrivalled technical skill and superb sound. Now remastered at 24-bit and presented in definitive transfers, these 101 discs are sure testimony to the artistic achievements of the label’s artists, producers and engineers: including, John Culshaw, Christopher Raeburn, Ray Minshull, Kenneth Wilkinson, Gordon Parry, Jack Law and James Lock.

• This collection features inspired collaborations with the great opera conductors of our time, including: Karajan, Solti, Mehta, Bonynge, Levine, Chailly

• With rarely surpassed casts featuring artists including Sutherland, Horne, Crespin, Minton, Fischer-Dieskau, Ghiaurov, Milnes, Freni, Scotto, Te Kanawa, Nucci, Caballé and many more

• Critically acclaimed performances of La Bohème and Madama Butterfly with Karajan. Other highlights include Tosca, Andrea Chenier, Norma, and the unbeatable Verdi Requiem with Sir Georg Solti

• Multiple recordings of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata; Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore; and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci