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Artistic use of contemporary everyday material over the heroic, the mythical and legendary, or the historical; A realistic or objective style of musical composition or of painting appropriate to the treatment of everyday material

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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.
  • Following Zola's lead in France, the fashion of the day was verismo, a dour realism justified by its commitment to social progress.
  • Verismus (from the Italian verismo) denotes a still more extreme fidelity to the actual appearance of the subject as found in nature.
  • The singers had been directed to adopt a slightly formalised movement, as if to undermine any possible sense that verismo was the goal.
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