The Three-Cornered Hat
The tricorn (Spanish El Sombrero de tres Picos, French Le Tricorne ) is a ballet by Manuel de Falla. The choreography created Léonide Massine. At the music Falla had worked 1916-1919, and the work was two years before the corregidor y la mimic farce El molinera, a dance pantomime, preceded. The plot designed Gregorio Martínez Sierra after a story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. The premiere of the work took place on 22 July 1919 at the London Alhambra Theatre by the company Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev instead. Conductor at the premiere was Ernest Ansermet. The curtain, the costumes and the sets supplied Pablo Picasso. Tamara Karsavina performers were, Léonide Massine and Leon Woizikowsky.
Musical arrangement and content
The work was supported by de Falla in his second great period, which lasted from 1914 to 1920, composes and has a strong influence of Spanish folk coloration to. In collaboration with Sergei Diaghilev, the de Falla had met in Paris, the piece for the final performance was again reworked thoroughly.
The ballet is about a beautiful miller's wife, her jealous husband and cunning, as well as the Corregidor a somewhat older provincial governor, the dignity of the tricorn embodies. The Corregidor seeks a beautiful woman, but is outwitted and embarrassed by her and her husband.
Musical organization of the work ( Suite)
The ballet has eleven phrases: