Utica, N.Y. — Munson is closing its season of The Met: Live in HD, a series of live cinema transmissions, with American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 30, in the Museum’s Sinnott Family–Bank of Utica Auditorium in Downtown Utica.
“El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” is a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. 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. The famously feuding pair briefly relive their tumultuous love, embracing both the passion and the pain before bidding the land of the living a final farewell.
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met-premiere staging of Frank’s opera, a “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, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz.
Tickets are $26 for Munson Members, $32 for the general public, and $16 for students and can be purchased by calling 315-797-0055 or online at munson.art/met-live.
“The Met: Live in HD” at Munson is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, Ph.D.
“The Met: Live in HD” series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital Support is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. “The Met: Live in HD” series is supported by Rolex.
For media inquiries, please contact Katie Voce, communications manager, at 315-797-0000 ext. 2147 or via email at kvoce@munson.art.
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