Maestro Valery Gergiev presented a musical reading of Arrigo Boito's monumental masterpiece "Mephistopheles" at the Bolshoi ...

The rarely performed Italian opera "Mefistofele" will return to Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre on Saturday for the first time in ...

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Mefistofele is an opera in a prologue, four acts and an epilogue, the only completed opera with music by the Italian composer-librettist Arrigo Boito (there are several completed operas for which he ...

The librettist with whom Verdi produced his later operas - Otello, Falstaff and a much revised Simon Boccanegra - was Arrigo Boito. Verdi much admired Boito, a composer in his own right, for his ...

Boito's Mefistofele from the Met Arrigo Boito's take on the Faust legend from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Arrigo Boito's take on the Faust legend from the Metropolitan Opera House in New ...