Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner are both born in the year 1813 and are undoubtedly indisputable figures of the opera and paradigmatic romantic artists. In the words of Blas Matamoro, author of the introduction to this VERDI and WAGNER, if the second proposed a revolution in anarchic terms, starting from scratch and placing in the mythical place of origin, Verdi, however, imagined human history as a revolution Permanent in which the perpetual is just the change. Fernando Fraga and Enrique Pérez Adrián, with an extensive experience in musical criticism and profound connoisseurs of the lyric, select and offer the reader a critical judgment weighted of the most important CD and DVD recordings of all the operas of two of the Most influential and brilliant musicians. From Oberto Earl of San Bonifacio to Falstaff and from Rienzi to Parsifal, different recordings and films of each one of the operas of these masters of the lyric are analyzed according to those parameters that define what for the good amateur is a good recording And a good filming: musical direction, voices, sound, image quality, and scenic direction in the case of DVDs. The reasoned, amature and personal comments of the authors provide an irreplaceable guide both for the expert amateur, who will be able to contrast their points of view, as for who wants to complete his disco or is beginning in the field of lyric.