This disc of highlights from Verdi’s epic opera Don Carlos is taken from the complete set (Naxos 8.660096–98), recorded live at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm. When the complete recording was released in 2003 BBC Music Magazine commented, “It is masterfully driven by Alberto Hold-Garrido, whose full-blooded, immaculately detailed account of the score is its strongest suit. The Swedish Opera Orchestra is superlative. And there are some distinguished voices … best of all, Ingrid Tobiasson’s thrilling, bravura Eboli.”