From time to time, people come along whose stories are so unique and vivid that their names actually become entries in the dictionary. One prime example is Faust, who made a disastrous deal with the ...

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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 ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele has its faults, but you can’t accuse the composer of lacking artistic aspirations.

Elder kicked off with an hour-long informal chat with author Jonathan Keates before proceeding to concert performances of substantial excerpts from the three operas. He even illustrated the pieces, ...

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Boito's Mefistofele from the Met, Arrigo Boito's take on the Faust legend from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. - The Prololgue of Boito's "Mefistofele." BBC Radio 3 ...

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 ...

Opera New Jersey and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra present the Fourth Annual Midsummer Celebration, sponsored by William and Judith Scheide, at the Richardson Auditorium in Princeton on Thursday, ...