Falstaff (opera)
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Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry
Lucien Fugère in the title role, 1894
Verdi in 1897
Boito in 1893
Victor Maurel as Iago in Boito and Verdi's Otello
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
Falstaff (opera)
…Falstaff (Italian pronunciation: ) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, by William Shakespeare. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at…
Arrigo Boito Archivio Storico Ricordi FOTO002997
Boito at age 44
Birthplace in Padua