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Join us for El último sueño de Frida y Diego Friday, May 3, 2024 | 7:30pm Box Office Open | 6:00pm Lobby Open | 6:30pm House Open | 7:00pm Sunday, May 5, 2024 | 2:00pm Box Office Open | 12:30pm Lobby Open | 1:00pm House Open | 1:30pm Orpheum Theater 409 S. 16th Street, Omaha, NE 68102 The performance runs approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes with one 25 minute intermission. View performance details Before you arrive Recent change in OPPD parking garage The OPPD Energy Plaza Garage will only accept payment through the ParkMobile app or with credit card and will no longer accept cash. The ParkMobile app allows you to reserve your parking session in advance. If you plan to park there, arrive early, an...

The challenge I faced when I was chosen to write the libretto of this opera was that both Frida and Diego were painters who were natural story tellers; they were chroniclers of time, history, and their personal lives. The question in my mind was always, how do I represent these two artists in an innovative way? Diego Rivera would examine the vestige of antiquity through the prism of his murals. In his frescos, which capture the imprint of time, Rivera always reminds us that there is nothing that cannot be recorded through the vividness of his brushstrokes. As with Diego, the paintbrush of anguish of Frida Kahlo also depicts those ...

Frida and Diego created some of the most fascinating works of art in the 20th century. Frida Kahlo is one of very few artists whose work is immediately recognizable. Diego is the father of Mexican Muralism, the first artistic movement the Americas gave to the world. They were extraordinary artists with extraordinary lives and a tragic love story. These two Mexican artists transcend in every aspect of their lives. They were unique, provocative, intense, and amazing artists. Frida and Diego created a whole universe for themselves with their art, their passions, their houses, their love affairs, their art collections, the way they dressed, their social and political ideals, and their ...

Gabriela Lena Frank weaves the beautifully delicate fabric of her opera with a needle dipped in the 20th century’s harmonic landscape. This choice resonates powerfully with the subject of our story, as if we travelled in time with her to meet Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Avoiding a common tendency in contemporary opera to have historical figures serve as canvases upon which the composer can experiment style and form, Frank invests her creative forces into an acute character study of Frida and Diego. Hence all the magical dimension of Mexican folklore in the opera becomes not a far away fairyland, but as believable a realm as their Casa Azul. On...

FRIDA AND DIEGO AND ME Mexican-born painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera within a fantastical landscape inspired by el Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is the premise of this new opera that I've been privileged to compose. In some ways, I've been living with these two iconic artists, especially Frida, from my youth growing up in the 1970s in Berkeley, California. Before I could read, I found Frida in the pages of an art book in my mother's home library, the only woman in a multi-volume set of "great artists." My mother pointed out how Frida was small, brown and creative like us; moreover, o...

¡Esperamos que esta guía pueda responder todas tus preguntas! Opera Omaha se compromete a crear un ambiente acogedor y positivo para cada miembro de la audiencia. Primero que nada, no es necesario hablar italiano, alemán, u otro idioma para disfrutar la ópera. Para la ópera de “El último sueño de Frida y Diego” habrá subtítulos en español e inglés proyectados sobre el escenario. Usualmente todas las presentaciones de Ópera Omaha tienen subtítulos en inglés. MANERAS PARA PREPARARTE Si no conoces la historia de la ópera que planeas asistir, es buena idea leer la sinopsis que puedes encontrar en línea, en nuestra página, o en tu pro...