The Metropolitan Opera- El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
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 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.
Met Premiere
Contains 1 interval.
- Runtime: 245 minutes
- Cast: Gabriella Reyes, Isabel Leonard, Nils Wanderer (debut)
- Year: 2026
- Rating: (12A TBC)
