Chautauqua Opera Conservatory with the Music School Festival Orchestra: La Vida Breve
Amphitheater AmphitheaterLa Vida Breve, with music by Manuel de Falla and a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, is considered one of the greatest operas written in Spanish. Written in 1905, it's a kind of “tragic zarzuela”, a hothouse verismo opera that mixes Andalusian folk songs into a score shimmering with French Impressionism. This vivid and engrossing...