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...Vida Breve, opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla, based on the libretto by Carlos Fernandez-Shaw, had its first U . S. performance last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Paco, traditional scion of a wealthy family in Granada, seduces Salud, a black-eyed gypsy girl, deserts her to marry the more suitable Carmela. Salud would have him back, goes to Carmela's house on the evening of the wedding festivities, sings the warm, fragrant gypsy melody that won him first, dies of grief when he repulses her. On such an old, old story, unfattened by dramatic detail...
Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, returned from Europe last week, announced that, among other novelties, he will put on four operas never before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...
...Symphony Hall this afternoon and tomorrow evening, the second pair of concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The program: Haendel, Concerto Grosso in D minor; Debussy, Dance (Orchestrated by Ravel); De Falla, "El Amor Brujo", and Beethoven, Symphony...
...Falla, "El Amor Brujo" ("Love the Sorcerer...
...Symphony Hall Friday afternoon and Saturday evening, the second pair of concerts of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The program comprises Haendel's Concerto Grosso for Strings, Ravel's orchestration of a Dance by Debussy, de Falla's Suite and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...