Arrigo Boito - Opera Libretti

Opera Libretti

The years given are those of the premieres.

  • Amleto (Franco Faccio; 1865)
  • Un tramonto (Gaetano Coronaro; 1873)
  • La falce (Alfredo Catalani; 1875)
  • La Gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli; 1876)
  • Semira (L. San Germano; never perf.)
  • Ero e Leandro (Giovanni Bottesini; 1879 - Luigi Mancinelli; 1897)
  • Simon Boccanegra (Giuseppe Verdi; 1881 )
  • Basi e bote (Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli; 1927)
  • Otello (Verdi; 1887)
  • Falstaff (Verdi; 1893)
  • Nerone (Boito, unfinished, lacking act V; 1924)

Boito also provided the text to Verdi's cantata Inno delle Nazioni (24 May 1862, Her Majesty's Theatre, London).

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