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The Met’s Frida & Diego Opera Imagines Feminist Revenge from Beyond the Grave

The Metropolitan Opera has opened "El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego," a new opera by composer Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz that imagines Frida Kahlo returning from the underworld during Día de los Muertos for a reunion with her husband Diego Rivera. The production features mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as Frida, Carlos Álvarez as Diego, and choreography by Deborah Colker, with sets by Jon Bausor that evoke Kahlo's iconic paintings and mirror. The opera explores themes of pain, creativity, and marital strife, granting Kahlo physical freedom denied to her in life while centering her perspective over Rivera's.

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Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are given a voice by New York's Metropolitan Opera

New York is experiencing a wave of Frida Kahlo-related events this spring, including a new book from Rizzoli about her childhood home museum in Mexico City and a small exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) featuring works by Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The centerpiece is the Metropolitan Opera's new production of *El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego*, with music by Gabriela Lena Frank and libretto by Nilo Cruz, both Pulitzer Prize winners. The opera, which premiered in San Diego in 2022, opens on 14 May and features set and costume design by Jon Bausor, who also co-curated the MoMA exhibition alongside curator Beverly Adams. The production imagines Kahlo's spirit rising from the underworld on the Day of the Dead to reunite with Rivera, blending Mexican musical elements with a dreamlike, visually rich aesthetic.

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Picasso Museum Malaga undergoes transformation to revisit artist's relationship with his father

The Picasso Museum Malaga (MPM) has opened a major exhibition titled "Memory and Desire," featuring 112 works from museums across Europe and the United States. The show centers on Picasso's 1925 painting "Studio with Plaster Head," on loan from MoMA in New York, and aims to rehabilitate the reputation of José Ruiz Blasco, Picasso's father and first art teacher. Curated by Eugenio Carmona, the exhibition challenges the long-held critical view that the father-son relationship was stormy, instead tracing the profound artistic influence José had on Picasso, from early academic works to surrealist masterpieces.

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