Dec. 25—Opera Southwest is bringing "Mefistofele" to New Year's Eve. Composer Arrigo Boito's 1868 opera will be the concert centerpiece of the Sunday, Dec. 31, performance at the National Hispanic ...

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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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — From the moment the devil climbs out of the pit — the orchestra pit — and onto the stage at War Memorial Opera House, one gets the sense that San Francisco Opera’s season-opening ...

Arrigo Boito’s unique interpretation of the Goethe play had a splendid performance by Pablo Bemsch in the lead role Arrigo Boito is probably most familiar as the remarkable writer and librettist who ...