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.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Bohème] Reference

Following Zola's lead in France, the fashion of the day was verismo, a dour realism justified by its commitment to social progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knock on Wood] Reference

Verismus (from the Italian verismo) denotes a still more extreme fidelity to the actual appearance of the subject as found in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [NATURALISM IN ART] Reference

The singers had been directed to adopt a slightly formalised movement, as if to undermine any possible sense that verismo was the goal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse, or, Voglio Turandot!] Reference

I will say that Viviani sounded good although Filianoti infused his performance with a rather verismo sounding bark that was distracting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

I love two of Respighi's operas: La Fiamma has a great potboiler plot and juicy roles for verismo-friendly tenor, soprano and mezzo voices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Editor, Operatic Edition] Reference

Lucy Shelton was the soprano, singing with a text-driven timbral variety that ran the gamut from whispered Sprechstimme to soaring verismo; Christoph Altstaedt conducted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magna Carter (3): The stuff that dreams are made of] Reference

Opera Holland Park, whose new Francesca is the last staging of another ambitious season, has a gift for grubbing out Italian verismo truffles from the turn of the 20th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25] Reference

One could imagine, I think, a verismo version of Lewis's tale in which Luddorf is haunted from first to last by his guilty secret, or perhaps an expressionist opera, like Bartok's Bluebeard's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lewis/Gounod's Bleeding Nonne: An Introduction and Translation of the Scribe/Delavigne Libretto] Reference

I've seen the Schreker a, needless to say, ghastly production in Berlin that mutilated the score, love to see productions of the other two--ah heck, the Respighi too, a wonderful bit of OTT late romanticism/verismo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five by Five] Reference

And he had the taste to know when to underplay, like the final verismo duet between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Variety.com] Reference

The Italian disciples of verismo are in full cry after nationalism and local color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

The stories chosen for operatic treatment by the champions of verismo are all alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

The story is contrived (even verismo opera libretti were contrived!), set in revolutionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

And like in real verismo there was a sudden, earth shattering blow, and release - the death of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

"Pagliacci" falls into the genre of verismo opera, a late 19th century, Italian-based theatrical style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crimson White RSS] Reference

There is a huge disconnect between the American West of the Gold Rush and the demands of verismo opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [NY Daily News] Reference

At the first I listened to some of the hot-blooded music of an Italian composer of the so-called school of verismo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference

Its selection indicates Fleming's coming focus on the verismo repertoire, for which a future recording date is planned.    From Wordnik.com.  [NashvilleScene.com] Reference

Though the Italian baritone has made Verdi something of a specialty, he is singing two other verismo roles this season.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference

Many contemporary novelists use dialogue precisely as small talk: as verismo-filler, giving us a comfy, televisual sense of the already known.    From Wordnik.com.  [JessicarulestheUniverse] Reference

Last Songs of Richard Strauss, the verismo arias of Giacomo Puccini and Ruggero Leoncavallo, or the sophisticated art songs of Olivier Messiaen.    From Wordnik.com.  [independent.com stories] Reference

The diva concluded her program proper with verismo rarities by Giordano and Zandonai, including an aria from the latter composer's "Conchita," a.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com - News] Reference

He is better known for his performances in the verismo operas than his work in the bel canto literature, but he does well enough in a small part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Acclaimed as one of the most beloved opera singers of all time, she primarily focused on the verismo roles of the lyric and dramatic repertoires.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

The organization's first major presentation in two years (conducted by Alberto Veronesi) is an evening of verismo-concert performances of Massenet's.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

"Rusticana" is famous for its lyrical melodies and lush instrumental intermezzo used by Martin Scorsese to frame his verismo-like film "Raging Bull.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The best known work by Italian composer Francesco Cilea, it is a passionate and melodic verismo opera that has long been a favorite of Italian prima donnas.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference

Update, 9 / 10: "The operatic tenor is very much a 19th - and 20th-century phenomenon," writes Verdi and verismo that Pavarotti's remarkable gift helped sustain may not last forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily] Reference

Olga Borodina reprises the role of Laura, which she sang two seasons ago at the Met, and later this season adds the role of the Principessa in the Italian verismo classic, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur.    From Wordnik.com.  [BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content] Reference

It is operatic, opera verismo, with the power to retain its grip on the memory, as the long popularity of the work indicates.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Wharton in New York] Reference

's famed old, bombed out Teatro Carlo Felice but in its post-war movie palace turned verismo temple, the famed Teatro Grattacielo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Opera Today] Reference

"legendary" for very good reasons, one that made me realize there was a great verismo opera with which I was only slightly familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

Menotti’s verismo score reaches for tragedy but ends up sounding overwrought, with its repetitive rhythms and relentless melodrama.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Screwball Cinderella] Reference

(1921-2003) in his prime (1956-62) has introduced me to the verismo opera first performed at La Scala in Milan on 28 March 1896, "Andrea Chénier" by Umberto Giordano (1867-1948).    From Wordnik.com.  [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference

And is Ponchielli verismo?.    From Wordnik.com.  [parterre box] Reference

verismo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Bonus Post for the Carnival of Shopping - A Dress A Day] Reference