阿里戈.博伊托(Arrigo Boito，1842-1918)是意大利作曲家、诗人、脚本作家与小说家，出生在帕杜阿。父亲是画家，母亲是一位波兰女伯爵。他于1861年毕业米兰音乐学院。 博伊托的歌剧《梅菲斯托费勒斯》是他完成的唯一一部歌剧，其内容源于歌德的《浮士德》。该剧于1868年由他本人指挥在斯卡拉歌剧院首演。首演未获成功。此后，博伊托修改了该剧，并将原来男中音演唱的浮士德改为男高音。1875年在博罗格纳再次上演受到欢迎。 他未完成的第二部歌剧《尼禄》在他去世后由著名指挥家托斯卡尼尼（Arturo Toscanini ）与意大利作曲家托马西尼（Vincenzo Tommasini）共同完成，并于1924年在斯卡拉首演。 博伊托于1893年获得剑桥大学授予的名誉博士学位。 作为脚本作家，他根据莎士比亚的戏剧为威尔第的歌剧《奥赛罗》与《法尔斯塔夫》所做的脚本也青史留名。 本套唱片应该是博伊托的《梅菲斯托费勒斯》目前最佳的版本之一，著名歌唱家云集的演出阵容非常强大。法布里提斯是意大利指挥家，他擅长于意大利歌剧的演绎，对歌唱声音与乐队音响细节平衡的处理受到一致好评。这位指挥家在1982年80岁完成本片的录制后于同年逝世。 http://www.wangchao.net.cn/bt/detail_38296.html Arrigo Boito (24 February 1842 – 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammaticpseudonym of Tobia Gorrio), was an Italian poet, journalist,novelist, librettist and composer, best known today for hislibretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otelloand Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele. Along with Emilio Praga, and his own brother Camillo Boito he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura artistic movement. Born in Padua, the son of Silvestro Boito, an Italian painter of miniatures and his wife, a Polish countess, Józefina Radolińska, Boito studied music at the Milan Conservatory with Alberto Mazzucato until 1861 and where a friend was Albert Visetti. His older brother, Camillo Boito, was an Italian architect and engineer, and a noted art critic, art historian and novelist. In 1866 he fought under Giuseppe Garibaldi in the Seven Weeks War in which the Kingdom of Italy and Prussia fought against Austria, after whichVenice was ceded to Italy. Between 1887 and 1894, he had an affair with celebrated actress Eleonora Duse. Their relationship was carried out in a highly clandestine manner, presumably because of Boito's many aristocratic friends and acquaintances. (Despite this, their voluminous correspondence over the years survives.) The two remained on good terms until his death. Towards the end of his musical career, Boito succeeded Giovanni Bottesini as director of the ParmaConservatory after the latter's death in 1889 and held the post until 1897. He received the honorary degree of doctor of music from the University of Cambridge in 1893, and when he died in Milan, and was interred there in the Cimitero Monumentale. He was an atheist. A memorial concert was given in his honor at La Scala in 1948. The orchestra was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Recorded in very primitive sound, the concert has been issued on CD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrigo Boito