verismo
/vɛˈrɪzməʊ
/noun [mass noun]
1Realism in the arts, especially late 19th-century Italian opera.The end of the book includes a short glossary of terms to help readers with certain concepts such as bel canto, leitmotif and verismo....
- First, most of them reject verismo and melodrama.
- Roberto Rizzi Brignoli is a pupil of verismo's late master, Gianandrea Gavazzeni.
1.1The verismo genre of opera, as composed principally by Puccini, Mascagni, and Leoncavallo: [as modifier]: a splendid verismo tenor...
- These verismo pieces are more difficult than many people realise.
- The saving grace to the whole artistic endeavour is that the works are classic verismo operas with sky-high true-life grit.
- Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo.
Origin
Italian.
Rhymes
- one-way
- one way and another (or one way or another)
- one way or the other (or one way and another)
- onewhile
- one-woman
- one-woman show
- one-world
- one-worlder
- one-worldism
- one-year-old
- one–many
- one–one
- onfall
- on-farm
- on-field
- on file
- on fire
- on first-name terms
- onflow
- onflowing
- on foot of
- on-form
- on for young and old
- on/from every side (or on/from all sides)
- ongaonga