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GRAND OPERA [1 record]

Record 1 1993-07-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music
DEF

Artistic use of contemporary everyday material in preference to the heroic or legendary, especially in grand opera.

OBS

verismo: Realism-term applied particularly to Italian opera of about 1900 (e.g. Mascagni, Puccini) with reference to its contemporary and often violent plots, sometimes amid sordid surroundings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique
DEF

(mouvement littéraire italien de la fin du XIXe siècle inspiré par le naturalisme et dirigé par les romantiques.

OBS

Par analogie, le vérisme dans l'opéra, le cinéma.

OBS

Dans le cadre de l'opéra, au tournant du XIXe et du XXe siècles, ce terme définit la tendance, affirmée surtout en Italie, à choisir des sujets tirés de la vie du peuple, avec des personnages mus par les passions humaines les plus simples et les plus immédiates [amour, jalousie...] sans implications héroïques ou idéalistes [...]

Spanish

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