Italian librettist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's last two monumental operas "Otello" and "Falstaff" and Amilcare Ponchielli's operatic masterpiece "La Gioconda". Along with Emilio Praga and his own brother Camillo Boito, he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura artistic movement. Boito wrote very little music, the most well-known is his opera "Mefistofele". Arturo Toscanini and Vincenzo Tommasini completed his another one "Nerone" and premiered at La Scala in 1924. He also left a Symphony in A minor in manuscript.
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