From time to time, people come along whose stories are so unique and vivid that their names actually become entries in the dictionary. One prime example is Faust, who made a disastrous deal with the ...

Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several completed operas for which he ...

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Get all the top news & discounts for Washington, DC & beyond. Now sometimes in opera, as is also the case in musical theatre, the librettist doesn't receive the credit they deserve. While frequently ...

Making its debut on the Island, the tragedy with a historical background is a rare pearl. Little performed, it achieved extraordinary success on its debut in 1924 A didactic reading and full respect ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele has its faults, but you can’t accuse the composer of lacking artistic aspirations.

Verdi was 80 when he finished turning Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor into a comic opera. Gatti’s 2012 production aimed to draw out its tenderness Giuseppe Verdi was in his late 70s and thinking ...

The librettist with whom Verdi produced his later operas - Otello, Falstaff and a much revised Simon Boccanegra - was Arrigo Boito. Verdi much admired Boito, a composer in his own right, for his ...

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Boito's Mefistofele from the Met, Arrigo Boito's take on the Faust legend from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. - The Prololgue of Boito's "Mefistofele." BBC Radio 3 ...