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 Cuba and "Kabelia" (1942). José Mauri Esteve composed numerous zarzuelas for the Alhambra Theater and one opera in three acts called "La Esclava", premiered on June 6, 1921 at the Teatro Nacional; and Bernardo Moncada, born in Trinidad, in 1888, composed the lyrical drama "Pasión Criolla", as well as the operas "Teresa" or "El grito de Yara" and "Amara" or "Los adoradores del sol". Also during the first half of the 20th century, the renowned composer Amadeo Roldán (1900-1939) wrote a so-called "gaelic opera" [sic.] in three acts, titled "Deirdre", from which he could only complete two acts before his premature