Love opera so much you want more? Eager to connect with fellow opera lovers? Or perhaps you’re curious to see rarely performed operas?
Join San Diego Opera’s
Movie Club
Saturday, May 30 at 10:00 am
at Regal Edwards Mira Mesa for
The Metropolitan Opera’s Presentation of El último sueño de Frida y Diego. This opera had its world premiere at San Diego Opera in October 2022.
On May 30, the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. 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.
After the showing
:
Stay for no-host lunch at nearby On the Border restaurant with San Diego Opera’s Artistic Administrator and singer/director Adam Ciofarri who will give you the inside scoop on the performance we just saw.
Purchase your tickets at the Regal Edwards Mira Mesa website:
Then let us know that you are attending by contacting Peter Shavitz by phone (619-533-7047) or email here.
Please note: The previously announced March 21st Movie Club gathering at Tristan und Isolde has been canceled. But if you’re looking for a compelling opera activity that afternoon, please join us at a Master Class led by Resident Conductor and Chorus Master, Bruce Stasyna. Click here for more info.
Have more questions? Peter probably has the answer, so don’t hesitate to contact him.
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