The cast concentrate before getting on the stage in "I Pagliacci."

"[The Verismo] For objectively expressing the focus only in a life fragment, the structure of the narrative demanded a new language: the writing was no longer far-fetched and the language adapted itself to the popular and dialectal speaking, as a way to enter the mentality of the new protagonists, incorporating the lexicon, phrases, proverbs and syntactical structures." (Fabris)