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Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Libretto by Nilo Cruz

Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her "spectacular" (The Times U.K.) first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Isabel Leonard and Carlos Álvarez star as Frida and Diego, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting a new production by Deborah Colker.

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Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her "spectacular" (The Times U.K.) first opera, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Isabel Leonard and Carlos Álvarez star as Frida and Diego, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting a new production by Deborah Colker.

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Puccini’s Turandot

One of the grandest productions in the Met repertory, Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering take on Puccini’s final masterpiece returns to the stage with two extraordinary casts. Oksana Lyniv conducts.

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One of the grandest productions in the Met repertory, Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering take on Puccini’s final masterpiece returns to the stage with two extraordinary casts. Oksana Lyniv conducts.

on stage through June 6

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Verdi’s La Traviata

A beloved mainstay of the repertory, Verdi’s great tragedy returns to the stage in Tony Award–winning director Michael Mayer’s dreamy production. Michele Spotti conducts a star-studded cast.

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A beloved mainstay of the repertory, Verdi’s great tragedy returns to the stage in Tony Award–winning director Michael Mayer’s dreamy production. Michele Spotti conducts a star-studded cast.

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Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego

Isabel Leonard and Carlos Álvarez star as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in the Met premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank celebrated first opera. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a vibrant production by director-choreographer Deborah Colker.

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Next Broadcast: Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (Live) | May 30, 1PM

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Sting’s The Last Ship

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Written, composed, and starring international music icon Sting, The Last Ship comes to the Met for a limited run of performances. Inspired by Sting’s childhood in a shipbuilding community, and drawing on his own musical roots, the newly adapted musical features new and revised songs as well as a new book by Barney Norris.

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Brian Large, 1937–2026

The Metropolitan Opera mourns the death of Brian Large, who directed more than 70 telecasts with the company over a period of 31 years.

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Turandot

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“One of the most lavish and intricate [productions] in the company’s repertoire” (The New York Times), Franco Zeffirelli’s glittering take on Puccini’s final masterpiece returns to the stage with three extraordinary casts bringing the rousing score to life. Sopranos Angela Meade, Anna Pirozzi, and Liudmyla Monastyrska star in the title role of the vengeful princess, whose frozen heart is thawed by the courageous prince Calàf, portrayed by tenors Michael Fabiano, Brian Jagde, and Roberto Alagna.
Production a gift of Mrs. Donald D. Harrington
Revival a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III
The Met is grateful to C. Graham Berwind, III for sponsoring the refurbishment of the Turandot sets

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Italian

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Turandot

Estimated Run Time
3 hrs 20 mins

House Opens

Act I
35 mins

Intermission
40 mins

Act II
50 mins

Intermission
30 mins

Act III
45 mins

Opera Ends

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World premiere: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1926. Puccini’s final opera is an epic fairy tale set in a China of legend, loosely based on a play by 18th-century Italian dramatist Carlo Gozzi. Featuring a most unusual score with an astounding and innovative use of chorus and orchestra, it is still recognizably Puccini, bursting with instantly appealing melody. The unenviable task of completing the opera’s final scene upon Puccini’s sudden death was left to the composer Franco Alfano. Conductor Arturo Toscanini oversaw Alfano’s contribution and led the world premiere.

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Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) was immensely popular in his own lifetime, and his mature works remain staples in the repertory of most of the world’s opera companies. Franco Alfano (1875–1954) wrote nine operas, of which Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) is still occasionally performed today. The librettists for Turandot were the playwright Giuseppe Adami (1878–1946), who had previously worked with Puccini on Il Tabarro and La Rondine, and the journalist Renato Simoni (1875–1952).

PRODUCTION
Franco Zeffirelli

SET DESIGNER
Franco Zeffirelli

COSTUME DESIGNERS
Anna Anni and Dada Saligeri

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Gil Wechsler

CHOREOGRAPHER
Chiang Ching

C. Graham Berwind, III Chorus Director
Tilman Michael

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COMPOSER

Giacomo Puccini

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In Gozzi’s play, the original commedia dell’arte characters wandered from Italy to China and were members of the Imperial court. Their comments satirized Venetian politics and mores of the times. Puccini and his librettists dispensed with any such relevance. The China of this opera, set in “legendary times,” is a mythic realm viewed from the exoticizing perspective of 20th-century Europeans.

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The large Turandot orchestra calls for a wide variety of instruments, including alto saxophones, celesta, bass xylophone, harps, and an organ. There are several genuine Chinese themes that are integrated into the score in a suave and brilliantly original manner, including the big imperial anthem in Act II. The opera also contains moments of sheer melodic beauty in Puccini’s most lyrical vein, most notably in the tenor’s unforgettable song of triumph, “Nessun dorma,” which opens Act III.

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