Who Was The Main Italian Opera Composer After Verdi?

Who Was The Main Italian Opera Composer After Verdi? Hailed as Verdi’s successor in the 1890s, Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), brought Italian opera into the twentieth century with his thirteen operas incorporating new elements of the style known as verismo (realism), as well as the exoticism of long-ago-and-far-away settings. Who was the most important opera composer