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Met Stages Frida & Diego Opera on Day of the Dead
The Metropolitan Museum presents an opera reuniting Kahlo and Rivera on Día de Muertos, exploring their fractured relationship through performance. The production imagines feminist themes and reimagines their legacy.
The Met's new opera production stages a supernatural encounter between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera on Mexico's Day of the Dead, exploring the artist couple's tumultuous marriage and individual legacies. The work draws on their complex relationship and artistic contributions, presenting feminist perspectives through operatic form. The timing of the production during Día de Muertos invokes cultural traditions surrounding memory and commemoration. The opera represents the museum's continued engagement with Latin American artistic narratives and interdisciplinary programming.
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