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Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic who wrote the libretti for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff. He also composed the opera Mefistofele and the Symphony in A minor, and had a clandestine affair with actress Eleonora Duse.
Arrigo Boito was an Italian poet and composer acclaimed for his opera Mefistofele (1868; for which he composed both libretto and music) and his librettos after William Shakespeare for Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893). The son of an Italian painter of miniatures and a Polish.
Scopri la vita e le opere di Arrigo Boito, uno dei più grandi poeti e librettisti italiani, autore di Mefistofele e Nerone. Leggi la sua formazione, le sue relazioni con Verdi e Wagner, le sue opere liriche e letterarie.
Mefistofele (Italian pronunciation: [mefiˈstɔːfele]) is an opera in a prologue and five acts, later reduced to four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several completed operas for which he was librettist only).
Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito. This is a performance by Pacific Northwest Opera that was given on November 10, 2019 at McIntyre Hall in Mt. Vernon, WA. ...more.
Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic who wrote the libretti for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff. He also composed Mefistofele, based on Goethe's Faust, and left an unfinished opera, Nerone.
Feb 24, 2019 · Learn about the life and works of Arrigo Boito, a poet, journalist, novelist, librettist, and composer who wrote one opera, "Mefistofele", and two libretti for Verdi, "Otello" and "Falstaff". Discover how Boito made religion and faith a central theme in "Otello" and watch a performance of "Mefistofele".
