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Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito , 1842-1918, Italian composer and librettist. His opera Mefistofele (1868, rev. 1875), influenced by Wagner's music-drama, helped to bring about a new dramatic style in Italian opera. Its first performance, at La Scala, Milan, caused a riot, but it subsequently became very popular.... Read more |
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libretto
libretto [Ital.,=little book], the text of an opera or an oratorio. Although a play usually emphasizes an integrated plot, a libretto is most often a loose plot connecting a series of episodes. Characterization and emotion are suggested by the words of a libretto but are expressed by the music. The... Read more |
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Boito, Arrigo (Enrico)
Boito, Arrigo [Enrico] (b Padua, 1842; d Milan, 1918). It. composer and poet, son of It. painter and Polish countess. Fame chiefly... |
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Gioconda, La
Gioconda, La (The Joyful Girl). Opera in 4 acts by Ponchielli, to lib. by ‘Tobia Gorrio’ ( Arrigo Boito), based on Hugo's play Angelo, Tyran de Padoue (1835). Prod. Milan 1876, CG and NY Met 1883. Contains in Act 3 Sc.2 the ballet ‘Dance of the Hours’. |
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Edward Perretti & Marissa Galvany Sing Arrigo Boito's "Mefistofele"
...06-12-1997 Edward Perretti & Marissa Galvany Sing Arrigo Boito's "Mefistofele"Edward Perretti and Marissa Galvany...Cokorinos in Ars Musica's thrilling concert performance of Arrigo Boito's great opera, "Mefistofele" at John Harms Theatre... |
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Ero e Leandro. Tragedia lirica in due atti di Arrigo Boito
...Tragedia lirica in due atti di Arrigo Boito, a cura di Emanuele d'Angelo...finora inedito, conservato nel fondo Boito dell'Istituto per la Musica della...introduzione (Il "Tristan und Isolde" di Boito, pp. 15-90). Qui d'Angelo sottolinea... |
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Reticence, a rhetorical strategy in Othelto/Otello: Shakespeare, Verdi-Boito,...
...hands of a real poet and musician, Arrigo Boito. As he was writing the libretto for Otello and later on for Falstaff, Boito was also working on another intellectually...became almost a natural choice for Boito, or rather, the character of Iago... |
 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Classicalal & Opera: The Devil has all the best tunes
...story of how the young librettist Arrigo Boito (right) gracefully lured the ageing...somewhat different. To begin with, Boito was no longer that young - 45 by...it feeds the next component of the Boito myth - namely, that after collaborating... |
 "New Statesman (1996)")
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Poor devil
...the greatest librettist Verdi ever had, Arrigo Boito, was also something of a composer. A new production of Boito's Mephistopheles at the English National...since the opera runs until 29 April. Boito was a writer who liked long elaborate... |
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Go to the devil
...will conduct the local premiere of Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele, instead of Massimiliano...composers start from the music, Boito, like Wagner, came to music through...to apprehend the score "because Boito is so busy with the text that his... |
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Samuel Ramey and a spectacular 'Mefistofele' a devil of a show.(Neighbor)
...performance Opera in three acts with prologue and epilogue by Arrigo Boito. Libretto by the composer. Cast Mefistofele Samuel...Sara Stewart and Victor Barauskas No one ever said Arrigo Boito's "Mefistofele" is one of the all-time great operas... |
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Giuseppe Verdi gets the last laugh in Pittsburgh Opera's 'Falstaff'
...had "retired" many times when his friend Arrigo Boito pressed him to write one more opera. Boito then gave him a libretto which improves on...that delights you on every page," he says. Boito based his libretto on "The Merry Wives of... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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GROUP EFFORT MAKES `MEFISTOFELE' A CROWD-PLEASER
Arrigo Boito's "Mefistofele" is one of the better...and the audience roared its approval. Boito was a finer librettist than composer. He...his adaptation of Goethe's "Faust." Boito's text attempts to incorporate some of... |
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Verdi's Cosmic Jokes
...their musical leader was young Arrigo Boito, calling for a deeper alliance with...convention. Wrong, of course, as Boito himself came to understand later...make gradual peace with fathers: Boito's belligerent youth could take... |
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