Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s fraught marriage at heart of dreamy opera

The Met Opera’s ‘Frida and Diego: The Last Dream’ will be broadcast internationally on May 30, with Maltese audiences able to experience the film at Spazju Kreattiv

Like a macabre scene from one of her vivid canvases, Frida Kahlo holds Diego Rivera in her arms as he dies at the foot of a gaunt red tree, their silhouettes framed by blue curtains, at the end of an opera devoted to their tumultuous relationship.

Sung in Spanish, Frida and Diego: The Last Dream is being staged for the first time at New York’s Metropolitan Opera starting Thursday, before an international cinema broadcast on May 30.

Read more about the production on Times2.

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