Saturday, May 30, 2026
NEW PRODUCTION! - SEASON CLOSE
Composer: Gabriela Lena Frank / Libretto by Nilo Cruz
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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.
English StreamText captioning is available here. A transcript of the transmission will also be available to view after the live performance.
Production a gift of the Francis Goelet Endowment Fund
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego is part of the Neubauer Family Foundation New Works Initiative.
Sung in Spanish.
2hrs 50mins with one intermission.
The MetLive in HD at The Moviehouse is made possible in part by the generous support of Thomas C. Ragan.
The Moviehouse programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.