SOME NOTES ON OPERA VERISM

• Authors: Blaho V.
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

A revival of interest in opera of Italian verism can be found worldwide nowadays. Alongside with the classic veristic operas - Mascagni's 'Cavalleria rusticana' and Leoncavallo's 'Pagliacci', postulates of verism within a sense of a true reflection of the vivid reality are the best satisfied in two opera transcriptions of Murger's 'Scenes de la Vie de Boheme' (by Puccini and Leoncavallo) which in all its difference are symbolizing a flush of living full of freedom, love and youth, and which are except of a love life reflecting also an everyday reality. They are similarly like other veristic operas bringing an increase of opera performance effect. In the music area they are rising the meaning of an orchestra, in more detail are characterizing the story scene, creating a conversation style and prefering an extrovert expressive singing. With regard to music, the verists were influenced both by Wagner and by French opera (Massenet), and with the exception of Puccini and Mascagni, in the course of their lives their composer's autograph did not progress very much. The outermost poles of verism are represented by Cilea's 'Adriana le Couvrer' and Montemezzi's 'L'amore dei tre re'. The prime position in popularisation of verism in Slovakia is played by Banska Bystrica Opera.

Keywords

EN

'BOHEME'; 'CAVALERIA RUSTICANA'; ITALIAN VERISM; VERISM; VERISTIC OPERA

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Theatre and Arts, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenské divadlo (Slovak Theatre)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 385-397
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Blaho V.

• V. Blaho, Kabinet divadla a filmu SAV, Dubravska cesta 9,. Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA03216648