ith audiences if not critics. The rise in popularity of theater and entertainment during the late nineteenth century, increased prosperity, and a focus on common people, manners and customs made verismo operas successful with audiences. Eventually the one-act structure of the verismo operas was extended to longer works, hoping to exploit the commerciality of the one-act verismo operas. The verismo operas were unique not only because of their differences in content and story but also because of th
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