El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego: The Met Opera (12A)

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 – El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego).

A magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. It has a libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Eurydice 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.