Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia is a project to record the complete works (in Latin: opera omnia) of the Danish Baroque composer Dieterich Buxtehude,[1] completed in October 2014 and released on Challenge Records.
After Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir had finished a recording of the complete cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach they began in 2005 the project "Dieterich Buxtehude - Opera Omnia" to record the complete works of Dieterich Buxtehude.
[2] Koopman is the president of the "International Dieterich Buxtehude Society" since 2004.
Soloists for the Buxtehude project who performed also in the Bach cantata project before have included sopranos Caroline Stam and Johannette Zomer, alto Bogna Bartosz, tenor Jörg Dürmüller, and bass Klaus Mertens.
Singers new for the Buxtehude have included sopranos Bettina Pahn, Miriam Meyer, Siri Thornhill, Orlanda Velez Isidro, Dorothee Wohlgemuth, altos Robin Blaze, Patrick Van Goethem, Hugo Naessens, Daniel Taylor, tenor Andreas Karasiak and bass Donald Bentvelsen.