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Arrigo Boito
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Italian poet and opera composer and librettist of Verdi's opera ''Otello'' (1842-1918)
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Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet, and journalist who worked within the Scapigliatura movement. Born in Padua in 1842, he was educated at the Milan Conservatory, where he earned a Doctor of Music degree. His professional output included works in the genres of opera and classical music, with notable compositions such as *Nerone* and *Mefistofele*. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Tobia Gorrio and Almaviva.
Boito held citizenship in the Kingdom of Italy and was a recipient of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus. He was an atheist and spoke Italian. Following his death in Milan in 1918, he was buried in the monumental cemetery of Milan. His literary and musical contributions have been documented in sources including the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition and the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Nowele
- Nerone, tragedia in quattro atti
- Verdi othello
- Re Orso Fiaba
- Iberia
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Film & TV
Writing · Padua,Italy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrigo_Boito. Arrigo Boito (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…
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1842
- Active to
- 1918
Discography
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- 7,837
- Total plays
- 49,335
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Italian composer, librettist and poet (February 24th, 1842, Padova - 1918, Milan) Although chiefly remembered for his work as a librettist, essentially for Verdi (he wrote the libretto for his two Shakespearean adaptations: Falstaff and Othello and revised the text for Simon Boccanegra), he also wrote the full libretto and music for one single opera: Mefistofele, now part of the common international repertoire. Thanks to a composition prize he was awarded as a student <a href="https://www.last
Recent publications · Crossref
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1842-02-24 ) 24 February 1842, Padua , Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia
- Died
- 10 June 1918 (1918-06-10) (aged 76), Milan , Kingdom of Italy
- Occupation
- Librettist, composer, poet and critic
- Nationality
- Italian
- Alma mater
- Milan Conservatory
- Genre
- Libretto
- Literary movement
- Scapigliatura - Lombard line
- Notable works
- Mefistofele Libretti for Giuseppe Verdi 's Otello and Falstaff and Amilcare Ponchielli 's La Gioconda
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Arrigo Boito, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Falstaff [Música notada] : commedia lirica in tre atti di Arrigo Boito
Mefistofele.. Ballata del mondo
Romanza [di] Fausto[Música notada]
La Vergine de Sunam [Música notada] : a 4 parti per masse corali d'ambo i sessi senzza accompagnamento = La Virgen de Sunam : coral á voces solas
Album musica [Música notada] : consacré à Guiseppe Verdi
I, the spirit that always denied: “Mefistofele”/A. Boito
Inaffia L 'ugola! (Then let me the canakin clink!): (Brindisi); “Otello” (act 1)/(Boito - Verdi)
“Othello”: Othello’s death/(Verdi)
Credo from “Othello”/(G. Verdi)
Othello’s death: aus “Othello”/(G. Verdi)
Mefistofele: L 'altra notte (Last night in the deep sea)/(Arrigo Boito)
Mefistofele: Lontano, lontano/(Boito)
![God, why did you heap this misery: from “Otello”/[Musik:] Giuseppe Verdi. [Text:] Boito/Kalbeck](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fa%2F012831%2Ffon_snp_a_012831_02.jpg&type=IMAGE)
God, why did you heap this misery: from “Otello”/[Musik:] Giuseppe Verdi. [Text:] Boito/Kalbeck
Love duet from “Otello” (1st act): 2. Teil: Da brannt 'in the dark face you a fire/Verdi
Desdemona’s song of the willow tree: “Othello”/(G. Verdi). Text: A. Boito
Son lo spirito che nege: (“Mefistofele”)/Boito
Mefistofele: act IV: Forma ideal purissima/(Boito)
Desdemona’s song from the willow: aus “Otello”/(Verdi)
![aria from “Mefistofele”/[Arrigo Boito]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.slub-dresden.de%2Ffon%2Fsnp%2Fb%2F006817%2Ffon_snp_b_006817_01.jpg&type=IMAGE)
aria from “Mefistofele”/[Arrigo Boito]
Giunto sul passo estremo: “Mefistofele”/(A. Boito)
Archibald Douglas: Ballad; I. Teil/(Loewe)
Othello: Credo/(Verdi)
Lontano, lontano: “Mefistofele”/(Boito)
Mefistofele: Prologue (Chorus of angels)/(Boito)
Mefistofele: Romanza di Faust; Giunto sul passo estremo/(Boito)
Mefistofele: act IV: Notte cupa, truce/(Boito)
Credo a. d. Opera “Othello”: (Go on, I know your destination!)/(Verdi - Boito)
Archibald Douglas: ballad; II part/(Loewe)
Falstaff (Act 3): Ehi! Tavern!; (Ho! Innkeeper!)/(Verdi - Boito)
Prolog: iz op. “Mefistofel '”/muz. Boito
Prolog: iz op. “Mefistofel '”/muz. Boito
Donor of Desdemona: “Othello”/(G. Verdi). Text: A. Boito
Falstaff (Act 1): L 'onore! Ladri!; (Falstaff “s monolog); (Your honor” Ruffians!)/(Verdi - Boito)
Mefistofele: L 'altra notte in fondo al mare/(Boito)
Mefistofele: “L 'altra notte”/(Boito)
Mefistofele: “Dai campi, dai prati”/(Boito)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arrigo Boito” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.