Dream a little dream of me
Gabriela Lena Frank’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego enchants and surprises despite the Disnified treatment of its subject matter.
Deborah Colker
4 pieces since 2024 — at 1 company, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
4
pieces
1
company
3
years
By company
Death becomes her and him
El último sueño de Frida y Diego at the Lyric Opera of Chicago is a visual and sonic wonder, but a weak libretto dampens its effect.
Actress of protest
Ainadamar functions on two levels: as a defiant dance against fascist totalitarianism and as an exaltation of the diva.
Spain and neutered
Ainadamar never quite found its identity between the two poles of conceptual and concrete.