To celebrate Verdi year 2013, the 200th anniversary of his birth, Sony Classical presents a special tribute to the greatest of all Italian opera composers – and a special treat for opera lovers: ten legendary Verdi singers from the last century in recital and highlight programs. Here are a dozen releases of classic recordings from the LP era, many appearing on CD for the first time. They take us back to a bygone age of great singing when many of these artists regularly appeared together on the world’s leading opera stages, above all at New York’s old Metropolitan Opera House on Broadway at 39th St.

Twelve new Sony Classical SINGERS, a dozen landmark Verdi recordings in new state-of-the-art remasterings from the original tapes. No opera collection should be without them.