For its centennial celebration, the San Francisco Opera presented Gabriela Lena Frank’s “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego.” The production was “as visually seductive as any staging I’ve seen in the past few years,” Alex Ross writes.
San Francisco Opera, which just finished celebrating its centennial season, occupies the War Memorial Opera House, a Roman-columned edifice designed after the fashion of the Palais Garnier, in Paris. Across the street is City Hall, another heap of aspirational Beaux-Arts architecture. No other major American city gives such prominence to its opera house; the juxtaposition of culture and power is European in spirit.
The libretto, by the playwright Nilo Cruz, is set in Mexico City, on the Day of the Dead, in 1957. Rivera is at the grave of Kahlo, who died three years earlier. A hooded flower-seller glides through the cemetery; she turns out to be Catrina, the Keeper of the Dead. In the underworld, Catrina assembles a motley crew of the dead for their annual pilgrimage.
Brilliant color persisted the following night, when the stage was given over to a revival of David Hockney’s 1992 designs for “Die Frau ohne Schatten,” the monumental fairy tale by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss. Sadly, this “Frau” has turned out to be Hockney’s final opera production; when he was active in the field, his deep pastel tones and light-limbed forms animated everything from “The Magic Flute” to “Turandot.
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