Arrigo Boito
Italian poet and opera composer and librettist of Verdi's opera ''Otello''
Arrigo Boito (Italian: [arˈriːɡo ˈbɔito]; born Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito; 24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918) was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. 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.
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Works
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- Nerone 1862
- Mefistofele
Box sets & recent recordings
- Reader's Digest Classical Collection: Verdi: Otello (Complete) — Giuseppe Verdi, Arrigo Boito, Alexander Rahbari (2008) box set · 45 tracks Spotify
- Boito: Mefistofele — Arrigo Boito, Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin (1959) box set · 37 tracks Spotify
- Boito: Mefistofele — Arrigo Boito, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Montserrat Caballé, Trinity Boys Choir, The London Opera Chorus, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Oliviero de Fabritiis (1984) box set · 37 tracks Spotify
- Boito: Mefistofele — Arrigo Boito, Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Julius Rudel, London Symphony Orchestra (1974) box set · 36 tracks Spotify
- Boito: Mefistofele — Arrigo Boito, Riccardo Muti, Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala, Milano, Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, Treble Choir of Teatro alla Scala and the Verdi Conservatory (1996) box set · 34 tracks Spotify
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