Italian Opera Singing at the Time of Verismo

Connects discussions of vocality and operatic culture with broader aesthetic and cultural shifts in society. In the decades that span the turn of the twentieth century, the Italian tradition of operatic singing became 'modern'. This book identifies and explores the formative elements of this multifaceted 'modernity', and its connections with the emergence of verismo , a realistic trend that affected every aspect of creative and intellectual life in fin-de-siècle Italy. Thisnovel approach to arti