Met Live – El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

The Metropolitan Opera Live in HD
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Live screening, 170 mins, 1 interval

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, this magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth. Frida, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaves the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reunites 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. The vibrant new production takes inspiration from Kahlo and Rivera’s paintings.