Word: saludable
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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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...