The Met: Live in HD:Encore presents

Frank’s

El Ultimo Sueno De Frida y Diego

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Saturday, May 30, 2026 at 1 p.m. Doors open at 12:30 p.m.

STANDARD – $25.01 CHILD (ages 18 & under) – $5 STUDENT – $5 (valid student I.D. will need to be shown upon arrival)

All seats are reserved *tax and fees included

Opera is sung in: Spanish Runtime: 2 HRS 25 MINS with One Intermission

Music by Gabriela Lena Frank & Libretto by Nilo Cruz

El Ultimo Sueno De Frida y Diego– American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her 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. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere 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, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar.

Event Note: This is an cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.