In this week’s Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly give a quick overview of Arrigo Boito’s operatic treatment of the Faust story. Taking the entirety of Goethe’s ...
Arrigo Boito may be best known today as Verdi’s librettist for Otello and Falstaff, but he was also a poet, journalist, novelist, critic, translator and composer. His trajectory as the latter, however ...