Word: verismo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Verismo Revisited "When they asked me if I could come to the Metropolitan Opera at the last moment, I said it was out of the question, of course I couldn't do it, so just forget it. But Franco pleaded, so I said 'Let me look at the scores.' And 1 really fell in love with Cavalleria...
...Peculiar Magic. Much of the trouble lay with the operas. Verdi's Falstaff, with its quicksilver score and its well-drawn characters, is a director's and a conductor's dream. Cav and Pag are genre pieces in a style known as verismo (truthful) to distinguish their homely subject matter from the myths and legends fashionable at the time...