The Opera Series (EMI & Virgin)

EMI Classics – The Home of Opera offers mid-price treasures from the world’s greatest opera catalogue. This collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of complete operas produced by EMI Classics and its sister label Virgin Classics over the last 60 years. Many of these recordings are the greatest opera recordings in the classical catalogue. With an unrivalled 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 Angela Gheorghiu, Natalie Dessay, Joyce DiDonato, Roberto Alagna, Antonio Pappano and Alan Curtis.

Although they don't come with a printed libretto, they do have a new printed introduction in English, German, French and Spanish and a bonus CD-Rom containing a synopsis and the libretto with translations which you can print out at home.