Arrigo boito biography books

Italian librettist and composer (–)

Arrigo Boito (Italian:[arˈriːɡoˈbɔito]; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito;^[1] 24 February &#;&#; 10 June ) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele.

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Mefistofele · Falstaff · Nerone · Otello · La Gioconda · Il Libro Dei Versi.

Amleto (Franco Faccio; ) · Mefistofele (, his own music; , his own music) · Un tramonto (Gaetano Coronaro; ) · La falce (Alfredo.

Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele.

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Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.

Along with Emilio Praga and his brother Camillo Boito, he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura (Italian bohemian) artistic movement.

He wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio.^[2]

Biography

Boito was born in Padua. He was the son of Silvestro Boito, a painter of miniatures, who was not of noble birth but passed himself off as a nobleman, and his wife, a Polish countess, Józefina Radolińska.

His older brother, Camillo Boito, was an Italian architect and eng