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Falla: La Vida Breve.(Opera Review)
FALLA: La Vida Breve
Sanchez, Nafe Suarez; Valls, Echeverria, Baquerizo; Asturias Symphony Orchestra, Prince of Asturias Foundation Choir, Valdes. Naxos 8.660155
Written in 1905, this neglected opera deserves more frequent hearings. Falla won a prestigious opera competition with it, but the work went unperformed for nearly ten years afterward, due certainly to its own brevity. (It clocks in at sixty-three minutes in this reading.) The music, running the gamut from full Romantic to Impressionistic to folksy Spanish, is arresting in new ways at every turn, painting dialogues, narrative interludes and peppy flamenco dances with equal success. Sadly, only the main character is fully fleshed out. One can't help imagining the almost certain fascination it might have held as a full-length work.
Salud, the poor gypsy whose life is cut short through unrequited love, reveals the essence of the plot in her opening Act I aria, "Vivan los que vien!": "Happy are those who laugh; miserable, those who cry. The life of the poor, rich in tears, cannot last long." Salud is a woman in love with a rich man who makes promises he has no intention of keeping. Que sorpresa! When the injured woman shows up at the wedding party of her erstwhile lover, she is overcome and drops dead in front of him. Ana Maria Sanchez has the requisite quality of voice to carry the drama, as Salud must. She presents stunning legato with a ...
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