Roberto Alagna- All'opera - Complete Opera Recordings on Warner Classics

A singer of passion, elegance and dynamism, excelling equally in Italian and French opera, Roberto Alagna has numbered among the world's leading tenors for more than 30 years. Born near Paris to Sicilian parents, he won the Pavarotti Competition in Philadelphia in 1988 and was subsequently declared "the Italian tenor of the new generation" by Opera magazine when he sang in Puccini's La bohème in London. His idiomatic phrasing and diction have consistently attracted praise. Alagna's recorded catalogue is substantial. In the judgement of the authoritative Grove Book of Opera Singers his recordings document "the plangent lyricism of Alagna's tone and the appealing ardour and inner fire of his style". Referring to his interpretation of the title role of Verdi's Don Carlos, in the recording conducted by Antonio Pappano, the New York Times wrote, "His intensely lyrical yet refined singing was a genuine revelation". This 33CD box contains complete operas - by Bizet, Donizetti, Gounod, Massene