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Verismo (meaning "realism", from Italian vero, meaning "truth") was an Italian literary movement born approximately between 1875 and 1895. It was mainly inspired by French naturalism, and Giovanni Verga and Luigi Capuana were its main exponents and writers of a verismo manifesto[citation needed]. Unlike French Naturalism, that was based on positivistic ideals, Verga and Capuana rejected claims of scientific nature and social usefulness of the movement. Italian verists were pessimistic, and based their work on the premise of impersonality, meaning that the writer should not impose any personal meaning or point of view to his works, which should seem as if 'written by themselves'.

The Italian operatic tradition carried on in the post-Romantic era by a group of composers that included Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919), and Giacomo Puccini. These men were associated with the movement known as ""VERISMO"" (realism), whose advocates tried to bring into the theater the naturalism of writers such as Emile Zola and Henrik Ibsen.
Contents
1 Verismo as an opera style
2 Relationship with the music of Wagner
3 Exponents of the Verismo style
4 Other usages
5 See also
6 Notes and references
Notes and references
2. Luca Zoppelli and Arthur Groos: Twilight of the True Gods: "Cristoforo Colombo", "I Medici" and the Construction of Italian History. Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol. 8, No. 3, (Nov., 1996), pp. 251-269; Cambridge University Press

3. W Ashbrook & H Powers (1991) Puccini's Turandot: The End of the Great Tradition, Princeton Studies in Opera

^ It's interesting to note that Bizet's Carmen predated Cavalleria by 15 years. Yet Carmen is the archetypical Verismo opera: instead of kings and countesses there are bullfighters and prostitutes. And the volume of bloodshed in Carmen certainly matches that of Cavalleria or Pagliacci.



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