This collection brings together some of the best-loved and most popular soprano arias in the Italian opera repertoire. The selection takes in music by all the great masters of opera, including Rossini, Verdi and Puccini, as well as arias taken from the operas of lesser known but equally gifted composers, such as Bellini and Giordano. In the space of little over an hour this recording provides a guided journey to a unique collection of the finest operatic moments, from bel canto purity of Bellini’s I Puritani to the lush lyricism of Puccini’s O mio babbino caro.