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The Bolshoi toured, of course, but some of its excursions became threadbare affairs, its programming at times chained to ideological themes. from The New York Times
Curtiss, pp. 426–29 It has been hailed as the first opera of the verismo school, in which sordid and brutal subjects are emphasised, with art reflecting life—"not idealised life but life as actually lived".Dent, p. 350 The music critic Harold C. Schonberg surmises that, had Bizet lived, he might have revolutionised French opera; as it is, verismo was taken up mainly by Italians, notably Puccini who, according to Dean, developed the idea "till it became threadbare".Dean (1965), pp.