verismo

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An artistic movement, from 19th century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner
Italian for "truth " a documentay style of opera involving melodramatice situations
Operatic "realism," a style popular in Italy in the 1890s, which tried to bring naturalism into the lyric theater
Realism, or naturalism, in opera as realized by Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and Puccini
(Literally: "realism") The movement in the late nineteenth century to create operas with more realistic, often grim subject matters One of the leading composers of verismo operas was Giacomo Puccini
A realistic and sensational type of late Romantic Italian opera