The Hop: El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego
Sun, May 31
|Spaulding Auditorium
This vibrant Met premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank's magical-realist opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera features a stunning libretto by playwright Nilo Cruz.
Time & Location
May 31, 2026, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Spaulding Auditorium, 4 E Wheelock St, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
About the event
Fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth, the story depicts Frida Kahlo, sung by leading mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego Rivera, 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. Countertenor Nils Wanderer as a young actor trapped in the underworld and soprano Gabriella Reyes as the Keeper of the Dead round out the cast.
The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego's paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker. 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).
May 31
Sunday 1:00 PM
Spaulding Auditorium
Tickets: $22+