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
Mefistofele
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Mefistofele is an Italian opera in a prologue and five acts, later reduced to four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito. It is an a
Arrigo Boito
…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…
Set design for the Prologue in Heaven, by Carlo Ferrario, 1881
Gate and ramparts of Frankfurt am Main, sketch for act 1, scene 1 (Ferrario)
Set design for act 1, scene 2 (Ferario)
Marta's garden for act 2, scene 1 (Ferrario)