Premieres beginning Sunday, October 18 (check local listings) on PBS, pbs.org/gperf and the PBS app
American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her first opera, a magical-realist portrait of painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. With a libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz, the opera is fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth. The story depicts Frida, sung by 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 before bidding the land of the living a final farewell. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the new production inspired by Frida and Diego’s paintings, directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker.
