Editing Romantic music (section)

====Italy====
{{Main|Italian opera}}
[[File:Verdi by Giovanni Boldini.jpg|thumb|upright|The iconic<ref>{{cite news|url=http://roma.corriere.it/notizie/cultura_e_spettacoli/17_marzo_03/giovanni-boldini-160-opere-mostra-vittoriano-e698ed70-003e-11e7-92b1-e1f58b14debd.shtml|title=Giovanni Boldini, 160 opere in mostra al Vittoriano|newspaper=[[Corriere della Sera]]|date=26 March 2017|access-date=31 July 2023|language=it}}</ref> ''[[Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi]]'' (1886) by [[Giovanni Boldini]]]]
Italian romanticism begins with [[Gioachino Rossini]] who composed works such as [[The Barber of Seville]] and [[La Cenerentola]]. He created the "[[bel canto]]" style, a style adopted by his contemporaries [[Vincenzo Bellini]]  and [[Gaetano Donizetti]].

However, the face of Italian opera is [[Giuseppe Verdi]] whose [[Nabucco]]'s slave choir is a very important hymn to all of Italy. The trilogy formed by [[Rigoletto]], [[Il trovatore]] and [[La traviata]] are among his major works but he reaches the peak of his art with [[Otello]] and [[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]] at the end of his career. He has infuled his works with unparalleled dramatic vigour and rhythmic vitality.

In the second part of the 19th century, [[Giacomo Puccini]], Verdi's undisputed successor, transcends [[Realism (arts)|realism]] into [[verism]]. [[La Bohème]], [[Tosca]], [[Madame Butterfly]], and [[Turandot]] are melodic operas loaded with emotion.