Pro Infancia Foundation. Ballet

Number by catalogue:  Michel: ES-FP 185   Yvert: ES-FP 181   Scott: ES-FP B2   Gibbons: ES-FP 230  

Perforation: Comb   Perforation type: 13x12 ¾

Subject:

35 Spanish centimos.

The Three-Cornered Hat on a windmill background.

Additional:

Three-cornered hat (Spanish: El sombrero de tres picos) - one-act ballet by M. de Falla on the plot of the eponymous novel by P. A. de Alarcon. Written by order of S.P. Diaghilev. The ballet premiered in London in 1919.

During the First World War, Manuel de Falla wrote the ballet in two acts, Correchidor and the Mill (El corregidor y la molinera). The work was first performed in 1917. Sergei Diaghilev, who attended the premiere, asked de Falla to rewrite the ballet, which received the name "Three-cornered hat". The libretto was written by Gregorio Martinez Sierra based on the novel by Pedro Antonio de Alarcon "El sombrero de tres picos" (Three-cornered hat). The choreographer was Leonid Myasin, and Pablo Picasso created the costumes and scenery. The ballet consisted of changing numbers, interconnected by pantomime scenes. The performance was based on flamenco, as well as fandango and jota. The ballet presents the story of the miller and his wife, living soul to soul, and the correchidor, who is trying to seduce the miller's wife, which leads to his public ridicule.