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
Ekaterina Vasilyeva (19th-century actress) performance for Vasilyeva. Another famous Maly benefit, the A.F. Bogdanov-directed production of Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in a Country" on 13 January 1872 celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Vasilyeva's stage career. Ostrovsky considered her to be the best Russian actress to specialize in the contemporary French, notably, Scribe's plays. Ekaterina Vasilyeva died in Bern, Switzerland, where she had been treated for tuberculosis. Ekaterina Vasilyeva (19th-century actress) Ekaterina Nikolayevna Vasilyeva (, Lavrova (Лаврова), 16 August 1829 in Moscow, Russian Empire – 27 April 1877 in Bern, Switzerland) was a Russian stage actress. Born to the professional opera singers, Nikolai Lavrov and