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The Art of the Libretto: A Conversation with Nilo Cruz

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The Art of the Libretto: A Conversation with Nilo Cruz
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Photograph courtesy of Zenith Richards / Met Opera.
In May, the opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego will open at the Metropolitan Opera. The opera centers on the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera—but not exactly as themselves. On the Day of the Dead, after Rivera prays for Kahlo’s return, she travels back from the underworld to visit the land of the living. There she finds Rivera, about whom she feels ambivalent; in life, their relationship had been characterized by his infidelity and emot

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