![]() The plot concerns the brief life and love of the gypsy girl Salud, who has been seduced by Paco, a fashionable upper-class youth. The Opéra Comique in Paris presented it in January 1914, and it was staged triumphantly in Madrid shortly after Falla’s return. It was finally accepted at the Casino Municipal in Nice in 1913. Encouraged by French musicians – particularly Paul Dukas – Falla continued to pitch La vida breve to theaters from Milan to London. He ended up living in Paris for the next seven years, returning to Spain only with the outbreak of World War I. ![]() ![]() The promised production of the work, however, did not take place, and it was still unperformed when Falla left Spain in 1907 to tour in France as a piano accompanist. ![]() Orchestration: 3 flutes (3 = piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (anvils, bass drum, bells, castanets, cymbals, snare drum, glockenspiel, tam-tam, and triangle), celesta, guitar, 2 harps, strings, chorus, and soloistsįirst Los Angeles Philharmonic performance:įalla had little success with the six zarzuelas he wrote in the first years of the 20th century, but in 1905 he won an opera competition in Madrid with the two-act La vida breve (The Brief Life), on a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw.
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