Met Opera premieres 'El Último Sueño' May 30

The Metropolitan Opera has scheduled a live cinema transmission of “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” for May 30, 2026, as the closing event of its 2025–26 Live in HD season. The company lists the opera on its official season calendar with performances running from May 14 through June 5. The Met’s Live in HD page says the May 30 performance will be shown in movie theaters worldwide. The company also says music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct the production. ### Which opera is the Met putting into theaters on May 30? “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” is the work the Met has slated for that May 30 broadcast. The company describes it as American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, with a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. The official production page says the story is a magical-realist portrait of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. (metopera.org) The Met synopsis places the action on Día de los Muertos, Nov. 2, 1957, three years after Kahlo’s death and the year of Rivera’s death. The company says the opera reverses the Orpheus and Eurydice myth by sending Frida from the underworld to reunite with Diego and bring him back with her from the world of the living. (metopera.org) ### When does the production actually begin at the Met? May 14 is the date the Met gave for the company premiere in a March 16 press release. That release says Frank’s opera will receive its Met premiere in a new production directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. The same release says the May 30 performance will be transmitted live to movie theaters around the world and that the May 14 and May 30 performances will also be carried live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on the SiriusXM app. (metopera.org) The 2025–26 season page lists the run as May 14 to June 5. The production page also identifies it as a new production and notes that the opera had its premiere at San Diego Opera in 2022 before arriving at the Met. ### Who is in the cast for the Met run? Isabel Leonard is listed by the Met as Frida Kahlo, opposite Carlos Álvarez as Diego Rivera. (metopera.org) The company’s press release also names countertenor Nils Wanderer in the production, which has drawn additional attention because it marks Frank’s Met debut as a composer. (metopera.org) Yannick Nézet-Séguin is the conductor attached to the Met premiere and the May 30 Live in HD transmission, according to the Met’s production and cinema pages. Deborah Colker, whose previous Met staging was “Ainadamar” in 2024, is credited as director and choreographer. ### Why is the Met tying this production to a broader city program? (metopera.org) April 17 is the date of a Met press release announcing a citywide celebration of Mexican culture in New York tied to the opera’s premiere. The company said the program would support the launch of “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” and highlighted a related exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Frida and Diego: The Last Dream,” which opened March 29. (metopera.org) The Met’s production page says the staging draws inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings. That page also says the opera is part of the Neubauer Family Foundation New Works Initiative, placing it within the company’s newer-work commissioning and presentation effort. ### Where can audiences watch it next? (metopera.org) May 30 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern is the listed start time for the Live in HD transmission, according to the Met-related cinema listings. The Met’s in-cinemas page says its Live in HD series sends performances from New York to theaters around the globe, and the opera’s own cinema page says this broadcast closes the 2025–26 season. (metopera.org) June 5 is the final onstage performance date shown on the Met’s season calendar. Tickets and cinema details are posted on the Metropolitan Opera’s season and Live in HD pages. (metopera.org 1) (metopera.org 2)