La vida breve

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Giancarlo Del Monaco directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in Spanish.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 184 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
• 2Released 6 years ago.
• 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
• 4Ainhoa Arteta and Jorge de León and María Luisa Corbacho carry the top of the cast.

The technical file

Runtime

84 min · 1h 24m

Status

Released

Original language

ES

Also by

Giancarlo Del Monaco

• 
  Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci

  2007 · ★ 9.0
• 
  Puccini: La Fanciulla del West

  2011 · ★ 8.0
• 
  Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

  1995 · ★ 8.0
• 
  Puccini: La bohème

  2006 · ★ 6.0
• 
  Les Contes d'Hoffmann

  2006
• 
  Stiffelio - The Met

  1993

Production companies

Who made it

• TE

  Teatro de la Zarzuela

  ES

Key crew

• ConductorMiguel Ángel Gómez Martínez
• MusicManuel de Falla

Release history · US

When it landed

• Premiere2020-10-17