Manuel de Falla

Movies

La vida breve
Music
Broadcast live from the Teatro de la Zarzuela on October 17, 2020.
Alice Sara Ott Live in Yellow Lounge: Nightfall
Music
The Yellow Lounge is nowhere more true to its reputation of bringing classical music to unusual spaces than here in the stunning setting inside MORI Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo. Pianist Alice Sara Ott as well as cellist Mischa Maisky perform repertoire from Debussy, Satie, Saint-Saëns and Massenet.
La Vida Breve
Music
La vida breve, an Andalusian opera in two acts written by Manuel de Falla on a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, staged by Giancarlo del Monaco at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, in Valencia.
Tríptico Elemental de España
Compositor
Feature film composed of three of the main short films by the experimental Spanish director Jose Val del Omar. Composed of Acariño galaico (De barro), released in 1995, Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto), a short film premiered at Cannes in 1961 that won a technical award at the French festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or and finally Aguaespejo granadino, released in 1955.
Deep Water
Music
On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.
Dance of Fire
Songs
The sometimes profound, sometimes slightly sordid tale of Elena, a famous concert pianist who, as a child, was sexually assaulted by a circus clown while the music of Manuel de Falla "Ritual Dance of Fire" could be heard from the circus tent. Since that time, Elena has gone into hysterics every time she hears that composition. Making matters worse, the lascivious clown is now her business manager.