Met: El Ultimo Sueño De Frida Y Diego (Frank/Cruz)

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season closes with a live transmission of Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The libretto is by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the story depicts Frida leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego. Frida is sung by mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard; Diego is portrayed by baritone Carlos Álvarez. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera. The production is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker and takes enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings. The score has been called a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). This event is a live cinema transmission and part of the Met’s Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

Ticket holders are invited to a pre-opera talk 30 minutes prior to curtain time in the theater.

Made possible through the support of Premier Medical Group, the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, the Dr. Edwin Ulrich Charitable Trust, the Benjamin R. Strong Opera Fund, the Stephen & Julia Dunwell Fund, the Dr. Mary Louise Van Winkle Fund, and all of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley. Promotional support courtesy of WMHT – FM 88.7 Poughkeepsie.

Reminder: This is a live satellite broadcast direct from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. On occasion there may be visual or sound disturbances that are beyond the Bardavon’s control. In the event a disturbance does occur, please be patient.

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