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Caruso as Canio Cavalleria Storchio as Santuzza
 
Verismo is not a cut-and-dried musical term. Its very definition is debated by scholars and enthusiasts, and the repertoire doesn't always easily fit into a simple genre. Read some of the opinions on this vibrant type of opera below.
  
 

"La Nave" Nel Cantiere. from Emporium, October, 1918, by Vincenzo Bucci (in Italian)

Un Squarcio di Vita, by Konrad Dryden

Rosa Raisa's Maliella in The Jewels of the Madonna, by Charles Mintzer

A Unique, Hyper-veristic Opera by a Composer Balanced Between Two Cultures, by Carlo Todeschi.

Verismo in Historical Context, by Marshall Berland