El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Met Opera Live in HD presents: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Gabriela Lena Frank / Libretto by Nilo Cruz

Sunday June 14th, 2026 at 1:00pm

Estimated Run Time: 2 Hours, 50 Mins *Includes Intermission

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego is 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).

Tickets: Adult $20, Student Reserved $10, Student Rush $5