Arrigo Boito
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Arrigo Boito 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
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Boito at age 44
Birthplace in Padua
Otello
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Otello is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera, first performed at the Teatro alla Scal
Arrigo Boito
…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…
Otello and Desdemona by Alexandre-Marie Colin, 1829
Verdi, c. 1870
Boito and Verdi at Sant'Agata
Francesco Tamagno as Otello in a costume designed by Alfred Edel for the original production