Manuel de falla la vida breve
Manuel de falla opera
Manuel de falla la vida breve!
La vida breve (opera)
| La vida breve | |
|---|---|
The composer in 1919 | |
| Translation | The Brief Life |
| Librettist | Carlos Fernández-Shaw |
| Language | Spanish (Andalusian dialect) |
| Premiere | |
La vida breve (Spanish Life is Short or The Brief Life) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw.
The opera being set in Granada, Andalusian Spanish is used.
The opera was written between August 1904 and March 1905 in Spain, but Falla was not at first able to get it staged there, and he continued to work on the score after moving to France.
The first performance was given (in a French translation by Paul Millet) at the Casino Municipal in Nice on 1 April 1913.[1] Paris and Madrid performances followed, later in 1913 and in 1914 respectively.
Claude Debussy played a major role in influencing Falla to transform it from the number opera it was at its Nice premiere to an opera with a more continuous musical