Met Opera Live: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Schedule
Sat, 30 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
345 Main St, Rockland, ME, United States, Maine 04841 | Rockland, ME
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MET OPERA PREMIEREMusic by Gabriela Lena Frank | Libretto by Nilo Cruz
On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with a 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. 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.
Estimated Run Time: 2 hrs 50 min, including one intermission
The Met Opera Live-in-HD Season is generously sponsored by Edward Jones - Andrea Curtis-Southard
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