The Met: Live in HD Season Concludes with Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego on Saturday, May 30
Published by on May 20, 2026 11:00 AM
The Met: Live in HD Season Concludes with Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego on Saturday, May 30
Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard and baritone Carlos Álvarez star as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Deborah Colker directs and choreographs the Met-premiere production
Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts
The Met: Live in HD is available through Fathom Entertainment in more than 700 theatres nationwide
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New York, NY and Denver, Colo. (May 20, 2026)— The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season concludes on Saturday, May 30, at 1 PM ET, with El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego by 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Music– and Latin Grammy Award–winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz, both making their Met debuts. Deborah Colker directs the Met premiere, which is conducted by the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The opera’s magical-realist plot imagines Frida Kahlo returning from the underworld on the Mexican Day of the Dead to confront her unfaithful husband, Diego Rivera, and relive their tumultuous love. The opera is sung in Spanish.
The opera stars three-time Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as Frida and baritone Carlos Álvarez as Diego. The cast also features soprano Gabriella Reyes as Catrina, mistress of the underworld, and countertenor Nils Wanderer as the artist Leonardo in his Met debut.
In addition to Colker, the creative team includes set and co-costume designer Jon Bausor, co-costume designer Wilberth Gonzalez in his Met debut, and lighting designer Adam Silverman.
Fathom Entertainment will also present two encores of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego in theatres on Wednesday, June 3, at 1:00PM and 6:30PM local time.
Tickets for El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego are available online and at participating theatre box offices (theatre locations are subject to change). For more information, visit Fathom Entertainment.
Gary Halvorson will direct the Live in HD presentation for cinemas, and Angel Blue will host the transmission, sharing exclusive behind-the-scenes content and interviews during intermission.
The Stars of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Montreal, Canada
Gabriella Reyes, Catrina; Meriden, Connecticut
Isabel Leonard, Frida; New York, New York
Nils Wanderer, Leonardo; Ludwigsburg, Germany
Carlos Álvarez, Diego; Málaga, Spain
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Stay tuned for upcoming details of the 2026 Live in HD Summer Encore Series, featuring two past performances from the renowned Live in HD series of HD cinema transmissions.
The 2026–27 Live in HD season, marking the 20th anniversary of the series, kicks off on September 19, 2026, with Twenty Years of the Met in Cinemas: An Anniversary Celebration, a special presentation featuring highlights from the company’s collection of more than 185 extraordinary onscreen performances. For the full season schedule, visit metopera.org/hd.
The Met: Live in HD series is made possible by a generous grant from its founding sponsor, Neubauer Family Foundation. Digital support of The Met: Live in HD is provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies. The Met: Live in HD series is in partnership with Rolex.
About Fathom Entertainment
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