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
Opera in Latin America work, such as in his operas "Il Guarany" and "Lo schiavo". The nineteenth-century opera "Guatimotzin" by Mexican composer Aniceto Ortega was the first conscious attempt to incorporate pre-Hispanic elements into the formal characteristics of opera. Other important 19th-century Mexican operas are "Agorante, rey de la Nubia" by Miguel Meneses (premiered during the commemorative festivities for the birthday of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico), "Pirro de Aragón" by Leonardo Canales, and "Keofar" by Felipe Villanueva. The operatic works of Melesio Morales are the most important in Mexico in the 19th century. His operas "Romeo y Julieta", "Ildegonda", "Gino Corsini", and "Cleopatra"