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• American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magicalrealist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz, arrives at the Met. 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. • Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Frank’s “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. |
