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Frank, The Last Dream of Frida and Diego
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The MET’s contemporary highlight of the 2025-2026 season centres on, arguably, art history’s most famous painter couple, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In the American composer and occasional pianist Gabriela Lena Frank’s 2022 magical-realist opera, the plot unfolds as an inverted Orpheus and Eurydice tale: on the Day of the Dead, Kahlo returns from the underworld to visit her husband for one final embrace, confrontation, and farewell. Conducted by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a man committed to all things new, the production directed by Deborah Colker features the inexhaustibly imaginative vocal technique of the mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and the distinguished baritone Carlos Álvarez in the respective title roles.
The broadcast will be sung in the original language, and shown with Hungarian and English subtitles.
Program and cast
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Cast:
Catrina: Gabriella Reyes
Frida: Isabel Leonard
Leonardo: Nils Wanderer
Diego: Carlos Álvarez
Creators:
set designer, costumes: Jon Bausor
lighting: Adam Silverman
director: Deborah Colker
Palace of Arts Müpa Budapest
When Müpa Budapest, Hungary and its capital's new cultural hub, opened in 2005, it was built to represent more than 100 years of Hungarian cultural history. As a conglomeration of cultural venues, the building has no precedent in 20th century Hungarian architecture and has no peers in the whole of Central Europe.
The creators of this ambitious project, the Trigránit Development Corporation, prime contractor Arcadom Construction and the Zoboki, Demeter and Partners Architectural Office, were driven by the desire to create a new European cultural citadel as part of the new Millennium City Centre complex along the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Danube waterfront. The result is a facility whose construction quality, appearance, functionality and 21st century technological infrastructure makes it ideally suited to productions of the highest standard. The building is also highly versatile and equipped to host performances of any genre and almost any scale.
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