Three-Cornered Hat, The

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Three-Cornered Hat, The (El sombrero de tres picos; Fr. Le Tricorne). 1-act ballet with mus. by Falla, choreog. by Massine, and scenario by Martinez Sierra based on P. A. de Alarcon's story El sombrero de tres picos (1874). F.p. London 1919 (Diaghilev Ballets Russes). Rev. version of pantomime by Sierra and Falla, El corregidor y la molinera, Madrid 1917. Same plot as Wolf's opera Der Corregidor.