Though Universal has a Falstaff (by Giulini) in it's catalog, they obtained the better-sung RCA version under Solti and also obtained the RCA Vespri with Martina Arroyo and Placido Domingo.
But some kudos are in order. Though Universal has a Falstaff (by Giulini) in it's catalog, they obtained the better-sung RCA version under Solti and also obtained the RCA Vespri with Martina Arroyo and Placido Domingo. Both the St. Petersburg and La Scala versions of La Forza del Destino are included, and both the Solti 5-act Don Carlos (in Italian) and the Abbado 5 act French version, with appendices, are included. They have included the better-sung (and harder to find) Del Monaco -Tebaldi Otello under Erede in preference to the more famous version under Karajan. I would have preferred the Sutherland-Pavarotti-Horne-Wixell Trovatore (although I already had that one and didn't have the Banaudi-Pavarotti-Verrett-Nucci version that is included, so that worked out for me). But the latter Trovatore appears to be uncut, while the earlier version suffered from cuts and tinkering by the prima donna's husband.