Boito

American  

[boi-toh, baw-ee-taw] / ˈbɔɪ toʊ, ˈbɔ i tɔ /

noun

1. Arrigo 1842–1918, Italian opera composer, poet, and novelist.

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Boito British  

/ ˈbɔːito /

noun

1. Arrigo (arˈriɡo). 1842–1918, Italian operatic composer and librettist, whose works include the opera Mefistofele (1868) and the librettos for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff

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Example Sentences

Now that she’s set a retirement date, Kerry Boito finds herself almost ready to be involved.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

Within days, Arrigo Boito started sketching a libretto for Verdi, a letter between the two recalled.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2022

Boito wrote under the pen name of Tobia Gorrio as a member of the Scapigliatura, an anti-bourgeois movement of artists and intellectuals in 1860s Milan.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2022

Preparing for “Otello,” she went back to the letters of Verdi’s librettist, Arrigo Boito, and noticed how he was absorbing the naturalistic innovations of Ibsen.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 28, 2016

It is only necessary to comment on a few features, as the original story is so well known and Boito follows it fairly closely now.

From Shakespeare and Music by Wilson, Christopher