| The saving grace to the whole artistic endeavour is that the works are classic verismo operas with sky-high true-life grit. |
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| As befits a verismo opera, Puccini's work is rooted in the real Rome rather than in that of the imagination. |
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| But peasants had made it to centre stage even in the opera house, and operatic verismo would become an established form. |
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| In their place, courtesy of Paul Brown's designs, was the verismo of early twentieth-century Italian rustica. |
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| Its setting is the Passion cycle, and the grisly subject matter perfectly suits the artist's verismo style. |
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| The end of the book includes a short glossary of terms to help readers with certain concepts such as bel canto, leitmotif and verismo. |
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| Mahler had completed his first three symphonies, and Mascagni and Leoncavallo were creating new orchestral colours in their verismo operas. |
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| He was successful as a verismo singer, with a distinct sense of style, clarity and command in his voice. |
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| Volatile personalities, sensationalism, and the depiction of local customs were further hallmarks of verismo. |
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| Enrico Caruso was the voice of choice for verismo composers. |
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| He followed them with Pagliacci, composed in the verismo, or realistic, style of Mascagni. |
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| Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo. |
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| My only problem is that the softly brushed texture of this lovely lyric soprano was never meant to do heavy verismo duty at any time during a long career. |
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| Nevertheless, he still can tear passion to tatters in the verismo arias. |
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| Tosca, of course, is a stunner, and verismo at its melodramatic best. |
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| From the start of his career, however, he also mastered the great verismo roles for spinto tenor, but without resorting to the use of portamenti and melodramatic effects. |
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| Based on the slightly earlier Italian literary verismo, which was itself influenced by French naturalism, operatic verismo was marked by melodramatic, often violent plots with characters drawn from everyday life. |
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| Such was the preoccupation with verismo that when Zola visited Italy in the 1890's, he was hailed as the father of Italy's new operatic tradition. |
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| The age of verismo was intense but short-lived. |
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| On the fringe of verismo, this most Wagnerian of Italian composers was both heir to the great Verdi tradition and a passionate admirer of Debussy and Richard Strauss. |
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| From its beginnings in the 1890s, the verismo movement made much use of romantic, highly-coloured libretti and effective, uncompromising theatricality. |
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| In the world of late 19th century Italian opera, this effort took the form of verismo for which Pietro Mascagni and Ruggiero Leoncavallo would be the standard-bearers. |
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| There have been various realism movements in the arts, such as the opera style of verismo, literary realism, theatrical realism and Italian neorealist cinema. |
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