Event Description
Met Premiere of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego – composed by Gabriela Lena Frank with libretto by Nilo Cruz
On 30 May 2026, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to an exciting 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. Created as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida, sung by eminent 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, which takes enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, and is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.
