Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera dream together again at Met Opera

Isabel Leonard as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and Carlos Álvarez as her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera perform in a scene from Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Marty Sohl/Met Opera

Marty Sohl/Met Opera

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have inspired books, films and plays with their evocative paintings and passionate, turbulent relationship. Now, the 20th century Mexican painters are protagonists in an opera.