Met26 El Ultimo Sueno de Frida y Diego
PG13
2h
48m
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1650 Town Center Dr
Lakeland, FL 33803•
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11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave Ste 1201
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410• • Reserved Seating
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3501 S. Tamiami Trail Ste 1100
Sarasota, FL 34239Reserved Seating
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147 Vermillion Blvd
Tallahassee, FL 32317Reserved Seating
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1609 W. Swann Ave.
Tampa, FL 33606• • Reserved Seating
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525 New Waverly Pl Ste 203
Cary, NC 27518Reserved Seating
Synopsis
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).
Director
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Deborah Colker