Arrigo Boito is probably better known as a librettist than as a composer, especially for his texts for Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra and the Shakespearian Otello and Falstaff, as well as the libretto of Ponchielli’s La Gioconda.
Opera
Boito’s only completed opera, for which he wrote both words and music, was Mefistofele, based on Goethe’s Faust, a work to which he made considerable alterations. ‘Ave, Signor’, sung by Mephistopheles in the prologue, and the prison scene for the soprano Margherita (Gretchen) remain familiar recital items.
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| VERDI: Falstaff (Royal Opera House, 1999) | |
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VERDI: Falstaff (Royal Opera House, 1999)
Composer:
Verdi, Giuseppe
Artists:
Frittoli, Barbara -- Frontali, Roberto -- Haitink, Bernard -- Hoare, Peter -- Howell, Gwynne -- Leggate, Robin -- Montague, Diana -- Nissa, Bernadette Manca di -- Rancatore, Desiree -- Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden -- Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden -- Tarver, Kenneth -- Terfel, Bryn
Label/Producer: Opus Arte |
| Vocal Duo Recital: Corelli, Franco / Tebaldi, Renata - BELLINI, V. / GLUCK, C.W. / VERDI, G. / PUCCINI, G. / GRIEG, E. (Live in Tokyo, 1973) | |
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Vocal Duo Recital: Corelli, Franco / Tebaldi, Renata - BELLINI, V. / GLUCK, C.W. / VERDI, G. / PUCCINI, G. / GRIEG, E. (Live in Tokyo, 1973)
Composers:
Bellini, Vincenzo -- Cardillo, Salvatore -- De Curtis, Ernesto -- Denza, Luigi -- Donizetti, Gaetano -- Gluck, Christoph Willibald -- Grieg, Edvard -- Massenet, Jules -- Monteverdi, Claudio -- Puccini, Giacomo -- Rossini, Gioachino -- Tosti, Francesco Paolo -- Verdi, Giuseppe
Artists:
Corelli, Franco -- Mori, Tadashi -- Tebaldi, Renata -- Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
Label/Producer: Dynamic |
| Vocal Recital: Scotto, Renata - HANDEL, G.F. / SCARLATTI, A. / ROSSINI, G. / VERDI, G. / LISZT, F. / RESPIGHI, O. (The 1984 Tokyo Recital) | |
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Vocal Recital: Scotto, Renata - HANDEL, G.F. / SCARLATTI, A. / ROSSINI, G. / VERDI, G. / LISZT, F. / RESPIGHI, O. (The 1984 Tokyo Recital)
Composers:
Handel, George Frideric -- Liszt, Franz -- Mascagni, Pietro -- Puccini, Giacomo -- Respighi, Ottorino -- Rossini, Gioachino -- Scarlatti, Alessandro -- Verdi, Giuseppe
Artists:
Fulton, Thomas -- Scotto, Renata
Label/Producer: Dynamic |
