Opera After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared in Italy. This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" that came to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly". Later Italian composers, such as Berio and Nono, have experimented with modernism. The first German opera was "Dafne", composed by Heinrich Schütz in 1627, but the music score has not survived. Italian opera held a great sway over German-speaking countries until the late 18th century. Nevertheless, native forms would develop in spite of this
Spanish opera Manuel de Falla's "Atlàntida" (1962 posth.), Enrique Granados' one-act opera "Goyescas", Tomás Bretón's "La Dolores", and the English-language operas of Isaac Albéniz - "Merlin", "Henry Clifford" and "Pepita Jiménez" for London and the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Manuel Garcia's Italian-language operas "L'amante astuto" ("The astute lover") and "La figlia dell' aria" ("The daughter of the air") had been performed in New York during the 19th Century but Spanish opera waited till the 20th Century. In the Americas operas include Alberto Ginastera's "Bomarzo," (New York 1967) and Mexican composer Daniel Catán's "Florencia en el Amazonas" (Houston 1996). Spanish opera Spanish opera