verismoinfluenced
Verismo-influenced is an adjective used in literary, musical, and visual-arts criticism to describe works that draw on the principles of verismo, a late 19th-century Italian movement focused on realism, everyday life, and unidealized social realities. The term denotes influence or affinity rather than a formal school, and it is often applied to works that adopt verismo’s emphasis on ordinary people, gritty environments, and pragmatic, sometimes stark storytelling.
Verismo emerged in Italian literature with writers such as Giovanni Verga and was extended into opera by
- Realistic depictions of everyday life, often with a focus on lower- or middle-class experiences
- Emphasis on social issues, hardship, and human struggle
- Unromantic or anti-idealized presentation, with direct or colloquial language
- Plot developments that are dramatic or tragic, frequently with unresolved or ambivalent endings
In literature, verismo-influenced works include novels and stories that imitate Verga’s veristic approach. In opera, Cavalleria