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Boito
[ boi-toh; Italian baw-ee-taw ]
noun
- Ar·ri·go [uh, -, ree, -goh, ah, r, -, ree, -gaw], 1842–1918, Italian opera composer, poet, and novelist.
Boito
/ ˈbɔːito /
noun
- BoitoArrigo18421918MItalianMUSIC: composerMUSIC: librettist 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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Otello, a lyric drama in four acts, with a book by Arrigo Boito, proved the second of the composer's matured period works.
Boito's libretto is, perhaps, the best written and planned book ever presented to a composer.
M. Boito is equally celebrated in his own country as musician and as poet.
This, one of the few passages in the libretto not immediately derived from Shakespeare, is a triumph on Boito's part.
Then follows a charming episode, another of Boito's interpolations, in which a band of Cypriotes bring flowers to Desdemona.
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