Nerone

opera by Boito

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Nerone is an opera by Italian composer and librettist Arrigo Boito. Boito worked on Nerone for nearly 50 years, but it was completed after his death by Vincenzo Tommasini and Arturo Toscanini, premiering in Milan in 1924. While the opera is noted for its grand design and spectacle, it is considered to lack the musical distinction of Boito's other opera, Mefistofele. Boito is also renowned for his librettos for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff.12

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Boito’s second opera, Nerone, occupied him for nearly 50 years; completed after his death by Vincenzo Tommasini and Arturo Toscanini, it was produced in Milan in 1924, but, despite its grand design and spectacle, it lacked the musical character that distinguished Mefistofele.
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Boito’s second opera, Nerone, occupied him for nearly 50 years; completed after his death by Vincenzo Tommasini and Arturo Toscanini, it was produced in Milan in 1924, but, despite its grand design and spectacle, it lacked the musical character that distinguished Mefistofele.
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