TREASURES FROM THE WORLD S GREATEST COLLECTION OF RECORDED OPERA With an unrivaled catalogue of over 450 complete opera recordings produced over the last 60 years and an illustrious succession of artists that today includes such names as Gabriela Santini, Marek Janowski, Alan Curtis, Michel Plasson, Antonio Pappano and Riccardo Muti EMI Classics, with its sister label Virgin Classics, can rightly claim to be the Home of Opera. EMI Classics introduces 11 timeless operas into the series including Puccini s Il Trittico, Verdi s I Vespri Siciliani, and Strauss Die Schweigsame Frau. Opera s greatest conductors from Otto Kempler to Richard Hickox, and many others, are featured in some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics/Virgin Classics catalog.