Opera Libretti
The years given are those of the premieres.
- Amleto (Franco Faccio; 1865)
- Un tramonto (Gaetano Coronaro; 1873)
- La falce (Alfredo Catalani; 1875)
- La Gioconda (Amilcare Ponchielli; 1876)
- Semira (L. San Germano; never perf.)
- Ero e Leandro (Giovanni Bottesini; 1879 - Luigi Mancinelli; 1897)
- Simon Boccanegra (Giuseppe Verdi; 1881 )
- Basi e bote (Riccardo Pick-Mangiagalli; 1927)
- Otello (Verdi; 1887)
- Falstaff (Verdi; 1893)
- Nerone (Boito, unfinished, lacking act V; 1924)
Boito also provided the text to Verdi's cantata Inno delle Nazioni (24 May 1862, Her Majesty's Theatre, London).
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