As one of the few warm newspaper critics put it after the Turin premiere: The audience "did not know how to leave the world of German transcendentalism in order to hear the music which.
Puccini's story, set in Paris in 1830, was not original, borrowing heavily from a French author, but the music was original and captivating in every one of the acts. And moviedom, as with opera under Puccini, would be changed. Then came the movie version of John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1940 about the unbelievable heartaches of a family trying to eke out an existence. The opera's annals would be similar to what happened in the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s when Hollywood came out not with movies about daily struggles of the poor but escapism through extravagant musicals.
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