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At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him...

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Andrea Chenier (12A) Royal Opera House Live 23-24

Barbican Centre

La fille du régiment

American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Met debut with her 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. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere of Frank’s opera, a “confident, richly imagined score” (The New Yorker) that “bursts with color and fresh individuality” (Los Angeles Times). The vibrant new production, taking enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s paintings, is directed and choreographed by Deborah Colker, following her remarkable 2024 debut staging of Ainadamar.

Baritone

Carlos Álvarez

Events

Upcoming events

May 14 - Jun 5, 2026

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego · The Metropolitan Opera

Past events

Jun 16, 2024

Andrea Chenier (12A) Royal Opera House Live 23-24 · Barbican Centre

Sep 30, 2020

La fille du régiment · Wiener Staatsoper

Future and recently performed repertoire

Sulpice, Sergeant in La fille du régiment ((The Daughter of the Regiment)) by Donizetti

Wiener Staatsoper

Diego in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego by Frank

The Metropolitan Opera

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