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 at La Haya and Teatro Real de Madrid respectively. It is known that he worked on an opera with a Cuban theme called "Cristóbal Colón", which manuscript has been lost. Villate passed away in Paris. In 1891. Soon after he had started to compose a lyric drama called "Lucifer", from which some fragments have been preserved. We should mention Laureano Fuentes Matons, Hubert de Blanck and Ignacio Cervantes among the Cuban opera composers from the 19th century. Laureano Fuentes Matons was born on July 3, 1825 in Santiago de Cuba and studied with Juan París, Hierrezuelo and Casamitjana. He composed