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Gabriela Lena Frank’sEl Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Encore in HD
Saturday, June 6, 2026
10:00 AM PDT
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.
Composer
Gabriela Lena Frank
Librettist
Nilo Cruz
SUNG IN Spanish (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
RUNTIME: 2hrs 25m, One Intermission
This performance will be recorded live on May 30, on the Metropolitan Opera stage and presented in HD on the big screen at Newport Performing Arts Center June 6.
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777 W Olive St, Newport, OR, United States, Oregon 97365
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