Boito

American  

[boi-toh, baw-ee-taw] / ˈbɔɪ toʊ, ˈbɔ i tɔ /

noun

1. Arrigo 1842–1918, Italian opera composer, poet, and novelist.

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Boito British  

/ ˈbɔːito /

noun

1. Arrigo (arˈriɡo). 1842–1918, Italian operatic composer and librettist, whose works include the opera Mefistofele (1868) and the librettos for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff

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Example Sentences

Scott Boito has tried many different ways to get his wife, Kerry, to be interested in their finances over the decades they’ve been married.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

Within days, Arrigo Boito started sketching a libretto for Verdi, a letter between the two recalled.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022

It is the culmination of Mr. Muti’s cycle with the Chicago Symphony of the three operas that Verdi and his most important librettist, Arrigo Boito, adapted from Shakespeare.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2016

Preparing for “Otello,” she went back to the letters of Verdi’s librettist, Arrigo Boito, and noticed how he was absorbing the naturalistic innovations of Ibsen.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2016

One of their productions, Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito, begins and ends with a heavenly chorus of angels praising God the Creator.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly