Chris LeDoux - Seventeen

The verist opera did not shy away from elements of exoticism either (paintings of Japanese life in Madame Butterfly, American in Puccini's Girl from the West). The atmosphere of touching sentimentality, sensitivity, disturbed by outbreaks of melodramatic.passions, a certain uniformity of the plot material, limited by the themes of love and jealousy, reduce societies. pathos of verist operas in comparison with Verdi's operas.