boto

Boto's "Mefistofele" belongs of course to a subsequent period.

Boto, on the other hand, in his evident desire to do justice to Goethe, has attempted too much and achieved too little.

Boto, in his setting, sounds Goethe's drama to greater depths than Gounod.

It does not appear in Shakespeare, so that the lines are as original with Boto as the music is with Verdi.

It appeared in Italia of the day after the performance, at which, it may be mentioned, Boto applauded vigorously from a box.