THT and Opera Company of Middlebury Present:

The MET: Live in HD:
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Saturday, May 30 at 1:00pm in the Anderson Studio

Pre-show talk at 12:15pm
by Alejandro Roca in the Anderson Studio theater. Roca is the artistic director of the OCM Young Artist program and lecturer in music at the Yale School of Music. (Free with ticket purchase)

Estimated Run Time:
2 hrs 50 mins, with one intermission

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.