Abstract

AbstractThe unprecedented success of Mascagni in setting to music a libretto derived from Verga's ‘Scene popolari’ Cavalleria Rusticana, in the early 1890s, started a short-lived fashion for veristic subjects in the Italian musical theatre. It also led Verga himself to adapt a short story from his 1880 collection Vita dei campi — ‘La Lupa’ — into a libretto for Puccini. The project was carefully engineered by the publisher Giulio Ricordi with a view to antagonizing his rival Edoardo Sonzogno who had struck gold with Cavalleria. It was agreed that Verga would elaborate a dramatized version from his novella and Federico De Roberto would be entrusted with its versification.

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