The Opera
First performed in 1904, the music is in the broad category called verismo, a style popular late in the 19th and early 20th centuries and characterized by stories about ordinary people set to deeply romantic music.What is this opera about?
Pinkerton is part of the conquering army who are the same in any era. The women are considered part of the booty of war. She believes he loves her, and abandons her family and religion, indeed everything, for him. Part of the attraction of war is the abandonment of social morality.
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