List of works for the stage by Falla
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This is a complete list of the stage works of the Spanish
composer
Manuel de Falla
(1876–1946).
Spain
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composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
(1876–1946).
List
Title | |Genre | |Subdivisions | |Libretto | |Composition | |Première date | |Place, theatre |
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El conde de Villamediana | composer | 1887, but lost | ||||
La Juana y la Petra (La casa de tócame Roque) | zarzuela Zarzuela Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance... |
1 act | J. Santero, after Ramon de la Cruz | 1900, but lost | unperformed | |
Limosna de amor | zarzuela | 1 act | José Jackson Veyán | 1901–1902 | unperformed | |
Los amores de la Inés Los amores de la Inés Los amores de la Inés is a zarzuela in one act, two scenes, composed by Manuel de Falla. The work uses a Spanish language libretto by Emilio Dugi and the music is organized into a prelude and five musical sections.The zarzuela was premiered at the Teatro Cómico in Madrid on 12 April 1902... |
zarzuela | 1 act | Emilio Dugi (Mannel Osorio y Bertrand) | 12 April 1902 | Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Teatro Cómico |
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El cornetín de órdenes composed with Amadeo Vives |
zarzuela | 3 acts | c. 1903, but lost | |||
La cruz de Malta composed with Amadeo Vives |
zarzuela | c. 1903, but lost | ||||
Prisionero de guerra composed with Amadeo Vives |
zarzuela | c. 1903–1904 | ||||
La vida breve La vida breve La vida breve is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original Spanish libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw... |
lyric drama | 2 acts | Carlos Fernández Shaw Carlos Fernández Shaw Insert non-formatted text hereCarlos Fernández Shaw was a Spanish poet and playwright. He wrote the libretti for the operas Margarita la tornera by Ruperto Chapí and La vida breve by Manuel de Falla.Fernández Shaw was the son of a Spanish father and an English mother... |
1904–1905 | 1 April 1913 | Nice Nice Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of... , Municipal Casino |
El amor brujo El amor brujo El amor brujo is a piece of music originally composed by Manuel de Falla for a chamber group, then re-scored as a symphonic suite, and eventually as a ballet... |
1. gitaneria / 2. symphonic work / 3. ballet pantomímico | Gregorio Martínez Sierra Gregorio Martínez Sierra Gregorio Martínez Sierra , Spanish writer, dramatist and theatre director.A key figure in the revival of the Spanish theatrical avant-garde in the early twentieth century, Gregorio Martínez Sierra was one of the few progressive dramatists whose productions achieved any measure of commercial... |
1914–1925 | 1. 15 April 1915, 2. 28 March 1916 | Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Teatro Lara |
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The Three-Cornered Hat | ballet | 1 act | Gregorio Martínez Sierra Gregorio Martínez Sierra Gregorio Martínez Sierra , Spanish writer, dramatist and theatre director.A key figure in the revival of the Spanish theatrical avant-garde in the early twentieth century, Gregorio Martínez Sierra was one of the few progressive dramatists whose productions achieved any measure of commercial... , after Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's El sombrero de tres picos |
22 July 1919 | London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... , Alhambra Theatre Alhambra Theatre The Alhambra was a popular theatre and music hall located on the east side of Leicester Square, in the West End of London. It was built originally as The Royal Panopticon of Science and Arts opening on 18 March 1854. It was closed after two years and reopened as the Alhambra. The building was... |
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Fuego fatuo | opera | 3 acts | after themes by Frédéric Chopin Frédéric Chopin Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano".... , libretto by M Martínez Sierra |
1918–1919, but unfinished | unperformed | |
El retablo de maese Pedro | puppet opera | 1 act | composer, after Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written... |
1919–1923 | 25 June 1923 | Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region... , Palace of the Princess of Polignac |
El gran teatro del mundo | incidental music | 1927 | composed for a performance of Calderón de la Barca Pedro Calderón de la Barca Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca , was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest... 's play of the same name |
27 June 1927 | Granada, Plaza de los Aljibes de la Alhambra | |
Atlàntida revised and completed by Ernesto Halffter Ernesto Halffter Ernesto Halffter Escriche was a Spanish composer and conductor. He was the brother of Rodolfo Halffter.... |
cantata escénica (for soloist, chorus and orchestra) | prologue and three parts | composer, after Jacint Verdaguer | 1927–1946 | 18 June 1962 | Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Teatro alla Scala La Scala La Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala... |