Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Verism.
- noun An artistic movement of the late 1800s, originating in Italy and influential especially in grand opera, marked by the use of rural characters and common, everyday themes often treated in a melodramatic manner.
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- noun An
artistic movement , from 19th centuryItalian literature andopera , in whichrural andeveryday people and themes were treated in an oftenmelodramatic manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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The new style was called verismo, and Puccini was among its finest practitioners.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Montemezzi (1875-1952) was an Italian composer of the so-called verismo school, its music characterized by sumptuous Wagnerian orchestral writing, and an integration of broad melodies with declamation suggesting the rhythm of Italian speech.
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Montemezzi (1875-1952) was an Italian composer of the so-called verismo school, its music characterized by sumptuous Wagnerian orchestral writing, and an integration of broad melodies with declamation suggesting the rhythm of Italian speech.
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Puccini was one of the first composers, in fact, to set operas about the lives of ordinary people - the narrative and compositional style called "verismo," or realism.
La Bohème elena maria vidal 2009
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Masterpieces of the "verismo" ( "realism") movement in 1890s Italian opera, both works expose a palette of "raw colors that get the heart and blood pumping fast," Yang says.
unknown title 2009
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Masterpieces of the "verismo" ( "realism") movement in 1890s Italian opera, both works expose a palette of "raw colors that get the heart and blood pumping fast," Yang says.
unknown title 2009
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The libretto of Doctor Atomic was greeted by a torrent of criticism in the press for its unusual use of both natural language (as lifted from primary sources, like letters and biographies) and poetry, as well as a perceived lack of "verismo" in some of the arias.
Emdashes 2009
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It's a wonderfully pithy example of Puccini's skill as a dramatic composer, ranging from the stark verismo tragedy of Tabarro, through the tear-jerking drama of Angelica to the wonderfully engineered comedy of Schicchi.
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It's set in 1910, and is in the realistically grim tradition of verismo opera.
Triple-Header Makes Excellent Opera Paul Levy 2011
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His is almost a verismo Sachs, an odd description, perhaps, given that word's association with the harsh realism of later Italian opera.
Review: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Opera House 2012
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