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
Emmeline (opera) Emmeline (opera) Emmeline is an opera in two acts composed by American Tobias Picker with a libretto by J.D. McClatchy. Picker's first opera, it was commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera company and premiered in 1996. In 2009, a chamber version of "Emmeline" was created for the Dicapo Opera. Based on the book of the same name by Judith Rossner, it is the story of a mid-19th-century Maine woman who has an illegitimate son whom she gives up for adoption. He is raised by others. Twenty years later the two meet and unknowingly marry; when they discover the secret, Emmeline