Met Opera Live in HD 25-26 Season

GABRIELA LENA FRANK / LIBRETTO BY NILO CRUZ

EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO

Saturday, May 30   10:00am
Wednesday, June 3   1 & 6:30pm

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her 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 Euridice 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. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere 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, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar.

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= FILM FACTS =

Running Time 145 min

Genre Opera

Starring
Gabriella Reyes
Isabel Leonard
Nils Wanderer
Carlos Álvarez

Directed by
Deborah Colker

Conducted by
Yannick Nézet-Séguin