![]() Whether Puccini can truly be described as a " verismo composer" depends on who's doing the describing. But there is another composer often associated with verismo who is surely the most famous of them all: Giacomo Puccini. Both are single-act operas with stories that take place in one day, and plausibly in real time, as well. The style is called verismo, and two textbook examples of it are Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Still, there is one type of opera that does employ a sort of real-time story telling, though not so rigorously as on 24. ![]() In some operas, as the audience enjoys a drink or two in the lobby between acts, decades can pass in the opera's plot line. In opera, things are generally quite different. The clock is essential because the story takes place in real time: 24 episodes equals 24 hours. It's a ticking clock, to keep track of how much of time has elapsed in the episode's story as the viewers were "away" watching advertisements. In TV's hit series 24, one of the key elements is seen - and heard - before and after each commercial break.
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