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

Now that she’s set a retirement date, Kerry Boito finds herself almost ready to be involved.

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

Boito wrote under the pen name of Tobia Gorrio as a member of the Scapigliatura, an anti-bourgeois movement of artists and intellectuals in 1860s Milan.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022

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

There were whisperings of an "Iago" written in collaboration with Boito, but it was awaiting ultimate criticism and final polish while the wonderful old master was engaged in revamping some of his early works.

From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward