Title: Mascagni's own opera
Product review: Mascagni wrote many "operas." There is doubt that he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, but L'Amico Fritz is his. After Cav, he never found melody again; therefore the doubt. Much of Cav sounds like Puccini orcehestrated it, and there are snippets of Puccini's Le Villi in it. Mascagni was crowned King of Verismo for an opera he might not have written. L'Amico Fritz is a pleasant little trifle with little action or melody.
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