Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry! Today, we’re discussing the changes happening in the late 19th century. This was the era of French lyricism, Italian verismo, and the beginnings of Russian opera. By the 1870s and 1880s, audiences wanted something new. The grandeur of earlier Romantic opera was there, but people yearned for realism and emotional immediacy. The result was an operatic world more intimate, visceral, and recognizably human than ever before.
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Operas mentioned in this episode:
Gounod - Faust
Bizet - Carmen
Massenet - Manon
Massenet - Werther
Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila
Delibes - Lakmé
Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana
Leoncavallo - Pagliacci
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky - The Queen of Spades
Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov
