MET LIVE IN HD – EL ÚLTIMO SUEÑO DE FRIDA Y DIEGO

30 MAY 2026: On May 30, the Met live in HD season comes to a close with the magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

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. Frank’s wild carnival of a score pulses with vivid folkloric colors and rhythms. 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.

The live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning LIVE IN HD series, presented in Germany and Austria by Clasart Classic.

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Production Company The Metropolitan Opera
Composer Gabriela Lena Frank
Libretto Nilo Cruz
Orchestra / Band The Metropolitan Opera
Conductor Yannick Nézet Séguin
Stage Director Deborah Colker
Soloists Gabriella Reyes, Isabel Leonard, Nils Wanderer, Carlos Álvarez