The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Name: The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Duration: 2 h 38 min

<ul><li>Pronunciation: el OOL-tee-moh SWAYN-yoh deh FREE-duh ee dee-AY-goh</li> <li>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, arrives at the Met. 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.</li> <li>Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Frank’s “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times).</li> <li>The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.</li></ul>PT2H38M

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego"The Metropolitan Opera: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego"

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