Daily Archives: February 10, 2016


ARC Fellows: Connections between Realist Literature and Verismo Opera

Connections between Realist Literature and Verismo Opera Submitted by our 2016 ARC Fellow Team: Melanie Gudesblatt (Music) and Joseph Lavery (English) Meaningful connections between realist literature and verismo opera are surprisingly elusive. As a term of opera criticism, verismo describes a style of opera popular during the 1880s, 1890s, and early 1900s, which saw French, Italian, […]