Answer: verismo

AnswerCrossword Clue
VERISMORealistic literary genre
VERISMOUse of everyday life in art
VERISMOOperatic movement circa 1900
VERISMOOpera genre for "Tosca" and "Pagliacci"
VERISMOLate 19th-century Italian operatic tradition
VERISMOOpera style using everyday events rather than myth
verismorealism in art or literature, also VERISM
verismothe use of everyday life and actions in artistic works: introduced into opera in the early 1900s in reaction to contemporary conventions, which were seen as artificial and untruthful