Claudio Abbado The Opera Edition [Box Set] (60-CD)

Claudio Abbado's career with Deutsche Grammophon stretches back over more than four decades. In that time he made innumerable recordings which still remain unsurpassed on record - classics right from the start. Abbado inspired levels of commitment and communication from his musicians that resulted in performances and recordings that stand the test of time.

Abbado was as much a man of the theatre as he was one of the greatest of all late 20th century symphonic conductors. Opera was central to all his orchestral posts, with three great composers forming the major pillars of his recorded opera legacy: Mozart, Rossini and Verdi.

Throughout his recorded legacy, the listener feels a real sense that characters are thought through in great detail and Abbado conducts with an obvious love for the music but also with a flexibility informed from the drama of the moment.

• Limited Edition presenting the entirety of Claudio Abbado's opera recordings on Deutsche Grammophon & Decca
• 20 complete operas + aria collections, overtures and two gala recitals
• Featuring the orchestras with whom Abbado was most closely associated: Orchestra Mozart, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Lucerne Festival Orchestra
• Booklet presents new notes by James Jolly (Editor-in-Chief of Gramophone magazine)

The Edition includes the following complete operas:

• Beethoven: Fidelio
• Berg: Wozzeck
• Bizet: Carmen
• Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
• Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
• Mozart: Don Giovanni
• Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
• Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
• Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri
• Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia (two recordings)
• Rossini: La Cenerentola
• Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims
• Schubert: Fierrabras
• Verdi: Aida
• Verdi: Don Carlos
• Verdi: Falstaff
• Verdi: Macbeth
• Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
• Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
• Wagner: Lohengrin