Spanish Dance from La Vida Breve (de Falla)
Movements
Notes
La vida breve (‘Life is Short’) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw. The complete opera is seldom performed today, even though its importance in the context of opera in Spanish is recognised and it was programmed for the reopening of the Teatro Real in 1997. However, its orchestral sections are often performed, especially the act 2 music published as Interlude and Dance, which is popular at concerts of Spanish music. (Fritz Kreisler in 1926 arranged for violin and piano the dance from this pairing under the spurious title Danse espagnole.)
