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Genesi was the first opera by Franco Battiato. It was released in 1987 on the Fonit Cetra label which used the recordings made during the first performance at the Teatro Regio in Parma on 29 April, 3 and 5 May 1987. It is probably his most beautiful work. Now it is re-released with remastered audio! 21 tracks where, musically, mixes of electronics, pop and symphony orchestra are found. It is certainly not a very easy work to digest, but it is extremely fascinating. Here we find the curiosity of a traveler fascinated by extra-Western liturgies. In the Middle East, Battiato had explored a different way of living spirituality and wanted to tell it in music. This is also the reason for the linguistic choice for the texts and the mix of languages: Italian, Sanskrit, Persian, Turkish, English, French ... Battiato defined this work as follows: "Genesi is a work that tends to an esoteric experience, not only because this is the central topic of my work but because it relies on listening as a real mystical experience ”. After some studio previews in some Italian cities, Parma invited him to represent the opera at the Teatro Regio: 180 members of the "Arturo Toscanini" Symphony Orchestra of Emilia-Romagna directed by Alessandro Nidi, 65 choristers, two sopranos, a tenor and a baritone. For the public it was a huge success. Critics accepted Genesi as a project too far from "traditional" opera and therefore did not consider it subject to "traditional" criticism. But sales at the time far exceeded those of any other classical music record, so much so that an opera was included in the charts for the first time in history.