Atlántida (opera)

Atlántida
Unfinished opera by Manuel de Falla
The composer
Descriptioncantata escénica
TranslationAtlantis
LanguageCatalan
Based onL'Atlàntida
by Jacint Verdaguer
Premiere
18 June 1962 (1962-06-18) (completed by Ernesto Halffter)

Atlántida (Atlantis) is an opera (titled a 'cantata escénica') in a prologue and three parts, by Manuel de Falla, based on the Catalan poem L'Atlàntida by Jacint Verdaguer. Falla worked on the score for twenty years but had not completed it at his death in Argentina in 1946; his disciple Ernesto Halffter prepared the score for performance.