Met Opera’s Frida & Diego
The Met Opera opened 'El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,' a new production celebrating Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that’s tied to a major MoMA exhibition and includes a production recording greeting patrons in the lobby. ( ) The cross‑institution programming makes it a can’t‑miss for opera and visual‑art fans in New York this spring. (sldxo.life)
Composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz make their Met debuts in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, in a new production directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker and conducted by Music Director Yannick Nézet‑Séguin. (metopera.org) Mezzo‑soprano Isabel Leonard is cast as Frida and baritone Carlos Álvarez as Diego in the Met run that opens May 14 and closes June 5, 2026. (operawire.com) MoMA’s Frida and Diego: The Last Dream opens March 21, 2026 and runs through September 12, 2026, mounting six paintings by Kahlo and more than a dozen works by Rivera in a gallery design by Jon Bausor tied to the Met production. (press.moma.org) The Met will close its 2025–26 Live in HD season with a worldwide cinema transmission of El Último Sueño on May 30 (with an encore), a presentation listed with a running time of approximately 2 hours 48 minutes. (fathomentertainment.com) MoMA’s press materials and the Met note an explicit collaboration: Bausor’s stage and co‑costume designs for the opera informed the exhibition’s bespoke installation, creating a shared visual language between stage and galleries. (press.moma.org) The opera, sung in Spanish and framed as a magical‑realist reversal of the Orpheus myth set on Día de los Muertos, centers on Frida leaving the underworld to revisit her fraught relationship with Diego. (metopera.org)
