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	Boito, Arrigo - Musical Biographies
		Boito's text was based on both parts of Goethe's "Faust." Gounod, inspired by the same subject, had taken but one episode of the vast poem and made a five-act opera of it.
		Boito achieves one of the most moving passages in the opera a passage to which Verdi might have been proud to sign his name by a melody of almost childlike simplicity.
		Boito is too critical to risk the- production of a work inadequate to his ideals, a work which, moreover, would stand or fall by the last operas of Verdi.
	www.tribalsmile.com /music/article_289.shtml (1157 words)

	Arrigo_Boito
		Arrigo Boito (February 24, 1842 – June 10, 1918) was an Italian poet, successful journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, Mefistofele.
		Boito withdrew the opera from further performances to rework it, and it had a more successful second premiere, in Bologna, April 10, 1875.
		Boito's revised and drastically cut version also changed Faust from a baritone to a tenor is still frequently performed and recorded today.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/arrigo_boito.html (403 words)

	Associazione Amici di Arrigo Boito
		Arrigo Boito was the leading poet of the Italian nineteenth century.
		Forse la poesia di Arrigo Boito è fatta per essere letta in circoli segreti, forse si tratta di una poesia per iniziati, che gli altri non possono che deridere o prendere alla lettera – beffarsi di Re Orso, o diventarlo.
		La vita di Arrigo Boito: aneddoti salaci sul vate della scapigliatura (gli amori, i nemici, l'impegno culturale e politico).
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	ARRIGO BOITO - LoveToKnow Article on ARRIGO BOITO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On completing his studies Boito travelled for some years, and after his return to Italy settled down in Milan, dividing his time between journalism and music.
		Boito treated the Faust legend in a spirit far more nearly akin to the conception of Goethe than is found in Gounod's Faust, but, in spite of many isolated beauties, his opera lacks cohesion and dramatic interest.
		His energies were afterwards chiefly devoted to the composition of libretti, of which the principal are Otello and FalstajJ, set to music by Verdi; La Gioconda, set by Ponchielli; Amleto, set by Faccio; and Era e Leandre, set by Bottesini and Mancinelli.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BO/BOITO_ARRIGO.htm (330 words)

	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Mefistofele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Boito's Mefistofele is rooted in the Faust legend, which has been retold in numerous dramas and operas.
		Arrigo Boito (1842-1918) was better known during his lifetime as a poet, librettist, and linguist than as a composer.
		Boito should have listened to his conductor: The premiere performance was a disaster, lasting past midnight.
	www.operaworld.com /special/mefisto.shtml (433 words)

	Portale Guseppe Verdi Ing \| Life and Operas \| Arrigo Boito
		Boito began a lengthy rewriting process, and the opera was presented in 1875 in Bologna, this time with success.
		Boito had already worked with Verdi, writing for him the text for the Hymn to the Nations and later working on the revision of the libretto for Simon Boccanegra (1881).
		From 1887 to 1898 Boito was sentimentally attached to the actress Eleonora Duse, for whom he translated Anthony and Cleopatra, Macbeth and part of Romeo and Juliet.
	www.giuseppeverdi.it /inglese/page.asp?IDCategoria=162&IDSezione=582&ID=19767 (342 words)

	Mefistofele - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Boito was a great admirer of Richard Wagner, and like him he wrote his own libretto.
		Boito set to work revising the opera, and a largely rewritten version was premiered in Bologna in 1875, sung by what is generally regarded to be a very fine cast.
		Boito made more minor revisions in 1876, and this definitive version was first performed in Venice on May 13, 1876.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Mefistofele (424 words)

	Arrigo Boito: la vita
		Arrigo Enrico Boito nasce a Padova il 26 febbraio 1842.
		Benché Boito avesse spesso posto l'ipotesi di una convivenza tra i due, la loro relazione rimane per gran parte "a distanza", lei girovaga per il mondo, lui sedenterizzatosi a Milano, finché l'attrice, che in fondo non era in cerca d'altri che d'un mentore, non lo trova in D'Annunzio.
		Boito anticipa già, quindi, le sperimentazioni di letteratura potenziale novecentesca, con ironia e grande estro, sottintendendo però le sue radici magiche, all'interno della tradizione della mistica del linguaggio alchemica e cabalistica.
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		The most quoted name of this period is that of Arrigo Boito, that embodied the essence of the Milanese Scapigliatura.
		Between Boito and Verdi fortunately it was introduced Shakespeare and that was further glue for these two marked personalities, contributing to create masterpieces we still listen at avidly.
		Boito himself clashed against a rock-like press and public reaction that did not want to accept those too excessive novelties; indeed his Mefistofele, represented at the Scala in 1868, met a whole “débacle”, recovering only in 1874 at Bologna, completely renewed.
	www.cesil.com /0400/bassen04.htm (444 words)

	Arrigo Boito - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Poet, novelist, and composer, Boito is known for the single opera he completed, Mefistofele.
		As a student at the Milan Conservatory, Boito was awarded a stipend after winning composition prizes that enabled him to travel and study abroad for two years.
		After the second performance was likewise ill-received, Boito withdrew the opera and undertook modifying it to appease criticism.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,405928,00.html (450 words)

	ARRIGO BOITO (1842– ) - Online Information article about ARRIGO BOITO (1842– )
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		Boito travelled for some years, and after his return to See also:
		Italy settled down in Milan, dividing his time between journalism and music.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /BLA_BOS/BOITO_ARRIGO_1842_.html (480 words)

	Opera Italiana
		Arrigo Boito, composer, writer, librettist, started his working partnership with Verdi, with whom he had already worked on the Hymn of the Nations, with the 1881 revision of Simon Boccanegra, followed by Otello and Falstaff.
		In Boito the composer at last found a collaborator who could understand his most intimate, complex dramatic requirements which enabled him to create that eagerly and long sought after blend of music and drama.
		Boito left a series of notebooks, some of which contain notes about Verdi's life, written during his frequent visits to Sant'Agata.
	www.operaitaliana.com /autori/curiosita.asp?ID=1&Cur=8 (575 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Boito
		As a student at the Milan Conservatory, Boito was awarded a stipend after winning composition prizes that enabled him to travel and study abroad for two years.
		At its premiere performance, a pious contingent, objecting to the thematic modernism of Boito's version of the Faust legend, demonstrated angrily.
		After the second performance was likewise ill-received, Boito withdrew the opera and undertook to modify it to appease criticism.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/boito.html (508 words)

	Arrigo Boito
		In 1866 he fought under Giuseppe Garibaldi, and in 1868 conducted the first performance of his opera Mefistofele at the Scala Theatre in Milan.
		Boito treated the Faust legend in a spirit far more nearly akin to the conception of Goethe than is found in Charles Gounod's Faust, but in spite of many isolated beauties, his opera lacks cohesion and dramatic interest.
		His energies were afterwards chiefly devoted to the composition of libretti, of which the principal are Otello and Falstaff, set to music by Giuseppe Verdi; La Gioconda, set by Amilcare Ponchielli; Amleto, set by Faccio; and Ero e Leandre, set by Giovanni Bottesini and Mancinelli.
	www.nndb.com /people/581/000093302 (321 words)

	ipedia.com: Arrigo Boito Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Arrigo Boito was an Italian poet, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, Mefistofele.
		Arrigo Boito (February 4, 1842 - June 10, 1918) was an Italian poet, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, Mefistofele.
		The premiere was badly received, but Boito's revised version was a great success, and it is still frequently performed and recorded today.
	www.ipedia.com /arrigo_boito.html (225 words)

	JRP's Book Review--January 2000
		With both Verdi's Otello and Boito's Mefistofele being performed at the Metropolitan Opera this year, I thought that it would be appropriate to read the correspondence between Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boito.
		Boito was the librettist of Verdi's Otello and Falstaff, and also assisted in revision of the libretto of Simon Boccanegra.
		One learns from the text, for example, that Boito, who was adapting Shakespeare for the Italian operatic stage, actually had "shaky" English, and relied on translations of Shakespeare made by François Victor Hugo, son of the famous writer.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Stage/8703/ja.html (820 words)

	AllRefer.com - Arrigo Boito (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Arrigo Boito, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Arrigo Boito[ArrE´go bO´EtO] Pronunciation Key, 1842–1918, Italian composer and librettist.
		Many consider Boito's masterpieces to be the librettos for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Boito-Ar.html (227 words)

	:: INKPOT - Toscanini - Boito Memorial - GUILD
		We have Arrigo Boito to thank for writing the brilliant libretti to Verdi’s Otello and Falstaff and for composing the monumental, if erratic, bass showpiece Mefistofele.
		Boito was a brainy, temperamental but generous colleague.
		He repeatedly urged Boito to complete the opera Nerone, a potboiler about the rise of Christianity in pagan Rome that Boito labored over for half a century.
	inkpot.com /classical/guildboitomem.html (902 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		The Italian composer, poet and musical critic, Arrigo Boito, is chiefly remembered for his work as a librettist.
		However Boito was also an accomplished operatic composer in his own right.
		Boito wrote the librettos and music for his operas "Mefistofele", based on Goethe's Faust, and "Nerone" which he left unfinished.
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/boito.html (110 words)

	Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fifty years passed from the first piece of news on Boito's project for his second and last opera, that he left incomplete only about the orchestration, to the author's death.
		An incomplete but very rich collection of this material is today kept in Parma, at the Conservatory "Arrigo Boito", where a room reproduces exactly Boito's study in Milan.
		This material has been roughly numbered by pencil, certainly not by Boito himself, and anyway up to today it has not been properly catalogued so that to be easily examined.
	www.cilea.it /music/pgabstr/rossini.htm (375 words)

	Arrigo Enrico Boito - Classical music composer
		Adolfo Pacini, Dario Zani, Carlo Scattola, Arrigo Boito, Enrico Cannino, Alfredo Catalani, Gregorian Chant, Gaetano Donizetti, Friedrich von Flotow, Umberto Giordano, Charles Gounod, Edouard Lalo, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni
		Giuseppe de Luca, Georges Bizet, Arrigo Boito, Marcello da Capua, Teodoro Cottrau, Vincenzo De Crescenzo, Stefano Donaudy, E.A. [pseudonym of Giovanni Gaeta] Mario, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini, Ambroise Thomas, Enrico Toselli
		Adolfo Pacini, Dario Zani, Carlo Scattola, Georges Bizet, Arrigo Boito, Enrico Cannino, Ernesto de Curtis, Gaetano Donizetti, Umberto Giordano, Charles Gounod, Pietro Mascagni, Jules Massenet, Louis Niedermeyer, Amilcare Ponchielli, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/boito (1240 words)

	Provocative thoughts, from Patric Standford - Sacrifice
		The fact that Haydn turned down an opera commission because he believed the young Mozart would do a better job is more a part of the generous nature of that beloved man. But Arrigo Boito, who died in 1918, was constantly torn between music and literary composition.
		At the age of only nineteen he met Verdi in Paris who was enough impressed with a cantata libretto to use it in a work to open the International Exhibition in London in 1862.
		Boito went on to write some of the finest libretti of the late nineteenth century, among which were La Gioconda for Ponchielli, Simon Boccanegra for Verdi, and later Verdi's last two masterpieces Otello and Falstaff.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2004/07/sacrifice.htm (337 words)

	Classica / Arrigo Boito's Faust opera "Mefistofele" with Samuel Ramey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Classica / Arrigo Boito's Faust opera "Mefistofele" with Samuel Ramey
		Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), the son of a Polish countess and an Italian painter, was not only a talented composer, but also a brilliant author and librettist.
		For his libretto, Boito used scenes from Goethe's "Faust I" and "Faust II", and even translated portions of this mighty work almost literally into Italian.
	www.unitel.de /classica/030897.htm (326 words)

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