Brief Life

…other for a national opera, La vida breve (first performed in Nice, France, 1913).

…staged in French translation, 1913; Brief Life, libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw) and the one-act El retablo de Maese Pedro (1923; “Master Peter’s Puppet Show,” text by the composer, after a scene in Don Quixote), which is in effect a chamber opera for marionettes.