Arrigo Boito Italian librettist 1842-1918

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Arrigo Boito, between February 24, 1842 in Padua, died June 10, 1918 in Milan, was an Italian librettist and composer. Italian librettist and composer who i.a. wrote librettos to Verdi’s Otello and Falstaff.

Arrigo Boito Italian librettist 1842-1918

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Arrigo Boito, born 24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio), was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi’s operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele. Along with Emilio Praga, he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura artistic movement.

Libretti by Boito

The years given are those of the premieres. Boito also provided the text to Verdi’s cantata Inno delle Nazioni which was first given on 24 May 1862 at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London.

Amleto (Franco Faccio; 1865)
Un tramonto (Gaetano Coronaro; 1873)
La falce (Alfredo Catalani; 1875)
La Gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli; 1876)
Semira (L. San Germano; never perf.)
Ero e Leandro (Giovanni Bottesini; 1879 – Luigi Mancinelli; 1897)
Simon Boccanegra (Giuseppe Verdi; 1881 [revised version of the 1857 original])
Basi e bote (Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli; 1927)
Otello (Verdi; 1887)
Falstaff (Verdi; 1893)
Nerone (Boito, unfinished, lacking act V; 1924)