El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego - Metropolitan Opera
The Last Dream of Frida and Diego. The Met-premiere staging of a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
The Last Dream of Frida and Diego. The Met-premiere staging of a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego, portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell.
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times).
The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.
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El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego is sung in Spanish with English subtitles.
A screening of the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Season in New York.
Duration: 2 hours 25 minutes, including 1 interval.
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