A unique and carefully-crafted personal selection of Verdi arias and songs that takes us on a musical journey from Verdis earliest compositions 1838 to the very last he wrote for the tenor voice: the beautiful aria from Falstaff Dal labbro il canto estasiato vola 1893. Featuring familiar, universal favourites such as La donna e mobile and Questo o quella, alongside less familiar gems from across Verdis operatic output. Recorded in Turin, with the world-class Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, and under the direction of award-winning conductor, Gianandrea Noseda. This is a genuine voyage of musical discovery, that will appeal to the casual classical audience, as well collectors and Verdi completists. Rolando owes his international breakthrough to Verdi: he has made opera history in La Traviata, Rigoletto and Don Carlo, as well as being a celebrated interpreter of the breath-taking Requiem This is Rolandos own personal tribute to one of historys most popular composers, and will be supported by extensive touring throughout 2012 and the entire Verdi year itself. Released to coincide with Verdis anniversary year (1813 to 2013). THE SOUND SOLUTION OF HIGH FIDELITY PURE AUDIO A Physical high Quality Pure Audio format, using existing Blu-ray technology No video content just pure high quality audio Content navigated using the remote control of your Blu-ray player Product behaves just like a normal CD. Audio offered in full DTS, PCM and Dolby Surround where available WHY SETTLE FOR ANYTHING ELSE? Here are some consumer reviews following the initial launch of pop titles in December 2012 Record companies listen up: THIS is the future of physical music. More please! The sound is better than the SACD s that were released about a decade ago. The clarity is phenomenal. Hope more albums come out in this format, because this is the way to go. It s awesome....never sounded so good! Fantastic, it s about time that there were some quality audio Blu-ray discs THE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS DURATION CAPACITY 7 hours + (CD Audio is 80 minutes) CAPACITY 50 Gigabytes (CD Audio is 0.65 Gigabytes) FORMATS HD Formats 2.1/5.1 PCM Non-Compressed DTS HD Master Audio Doby True HD (CD Audio is PCM limited to 44.1khx 2.0) SAMPLING FREQUENCY 96Khz to 192khz 96.000 mini information per second (CD Audio is 16 bits = 65,546 possible values) DYNAMIC 144 Decibels (CD Audio is 96 Decibels) BITRATE 21.5 Megabits/sec (CD Audio is 1.5 Megabits/sec)