In Cinemas 5/30/2026

MET Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

MET Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

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Genre

Opera

Run time

2h 48min

Music by Gabriela Lena Frank* | Libretto by Nilo Cruz*

On May 30, 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.

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Production: Deborah Colker

Set and Costume Designer: Jon Bausor

Catrina: Gabriella Reyes

Frida: Isabel Leonard

Leonardo: Nils Wanderer*

Diego: Carlos Álvarez

Genre

Opera

Run time

2h 48min

Music by Gabriela Lena Frank* | Libretto by Nilo Cruz*

On May 30, 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.

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Production: Deborah Colker

Set and Costume Designer: Jon Bausor

Catrina: Gabriella Reyes

Frida: Isabel Leonard

Leonardo: Nils Wanderer*

Diego: Carlos Álvarez

Info

Rating

For all audiences

Production year

2026

Global distributor

The Metropolitan Opera

Local distributor

The Metropolitan Opera

In Cinemas

5/30/2026