La vida breve is a two-act, four-scene opera that Manuel de Falla composed between August 1904 and March 1905 in Spain. The libretto, written by Carlos Fernández-Shaw, is set in Granada and uses the local language, Andalusian Spanish. Unable to secure its premiere in Spain, Falla continued revising the score after moving to France.
Act 1
Afternoon and sunset in the (gypsy) Albaicín district.
A male chorus of anvil workers plies their trade at the local forge. The young gypsy, Salud, is passionately in love with a young well-to-do man named Paco. She does not know, and Paco does not tell her, that he is already engaged to a woman of his social class. Her uncle, Sarvaor (Salvador), and her grandmother (La abuela) have discovered this, and they try to prevent Salud from interrupting Paco's wedding after she learns the truth.
Act 2
A wealthier part of the city: in front of a house on whose patio wedding festivities are in progress (and visible from the street), and then in the patio itself.
Confrontation (which
from several perspectives is the theme of the whole opera) occurs after Salud
and Sarvaor gate-crash the festivities, astonishing the bride and the guests
and momentarily throwing the mendacious groom so much off his guard that he utters
Salud's name before denying he knows her and ordering her ejection. Her heart
broken, Salud falls dead at his feet, in what is said to be the ultimate
gesture of contempt for a former lover.
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