On Screen: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (Met Opera)

Orcas Center presents on the Center Stage Screen: Met Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego Tuesday, June 9th at 1pm Runtime: 168 Min. Tiered Ticket Pricing (https://orcascenter.org/ticket-prices/): $50, $35, $20, $10 (Student and Senior) SYNOPSIS (https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/) https://orcascenter.ludus.com/200513476 El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (Gabriela Lena Frank / Libretto by Nilo Cruz) More information about El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego is available from The Met, here. (https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/) 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. 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, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar. https://orcascenter.ludus.com/200513476