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La vida breve (Spanish Life is Short or The Brief Life) is an opera in two acts and four scenes by Manuel de Falla to an original libretto by Carlos Fernández-Shaw.The opera being set in Granada, Andalusian Spanish is used.
Chinese mestizo (Philippine Spanish: mestizo de Sangley / chinito (masculine) / chinita (feminine); Filipino/Tagalog: Mestisong Tsino / Tsinito (masculine) / Tsinita (feminine); Philippine Hokkien Chinese: 出世仔 / 出世; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhut-sì-á / Chhut-sì, Mandarin simplified Chinese: 华菲混血; traditional Chinese: 華菲混血 ...
Sangley (English plural: Sangleys; Spanish plural: Sangleyes) and Mestizo de Sangley (Sangley mestizo, mestisong Sangley, chino mestizo or Chinese mestizo) are archaic terms used in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era to describe respectively a person of pure overseas Chinese ancestry and a person of mixed Chinese and native Filipino ancestry. [1]
La Vida Breve (literally The Brief Life; published in English as A Brief Life) is a 1950 novel by Uruguayan novelist Juan Carlos Onetti.The novel takes place in Buenos Aires and in the mythical town of Santa Maria - a fictional town "between a river and a colony of Swiss workers", which first appears in this novel, but is also the main setting for many of Onetti's later novels.
Carlos Fernández Shaw (23 September 1865 – 7 June 1911) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and journalist. [1] He wrote the texts for many zarzuelas , including La revoltosa , La chavala and Las bravías , all in collaboration with José López Silva and with music by Ruperto Chapí .
With a libretto by Carlos Fernández Shaw, La vida breve won Falla first prize in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando musical competition, with a prize of 2500 pesetas and a promise of a production at the Teatro Royal in Madrid—a pledge which unfortunately was not fulfilled [4] In April 1905 he won the first prize in a piano ...
Earning his freedom, Guerrero became a respected warrior under a Maya lord and raised three of the first mestizo children in Mexico and one of the first mestizo children in the Americas, alongside Miguel Díez de Aux and the children of Caramuru and João Ramalho in Brazil. Little is known of his early life.
La vida breve, The brief life, or A brief life may refer to: La vida breve (opera) La vida breve (novel) See also. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao;