The Met: Live in HD
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
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.
Music: Gabriela Lena Frank
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Please note that additional U.S. cinemas will be added. Many cinema locations are still in the process of upgrading their in-theater reception equipment to present the Met events in the best quality. These venues will be added to the distribution network as soon as the technical upgrade is resolved at each site.
The Met: Live in HD
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Cast & Crew
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Conductor
Gabriella Reyes
Catrina
Isabel Leonard
Frida
Nils Wanderer
Leonardo
Carlos Álvarez
Diego
