Robert Xavier Rodríguez’s colorful score is a perfect match for the passionate art of the legendary painter Frida Kahlo. Although the artist was wracked by agonizing physical pain and caught up in a stormy marriage to Diego Rivera, the flame that fueled Kahlo’s art just kept burning and never turned to ash. She created fifty-five self-portraits. But no portrait of her is quite as revealing as the one in Rodríguez’s opera.
CAST
Frida Kahlo – Catalina Cuervo
Diego Rivera – Ricardo Herrera*
Cristina Kahlo – Jessica E. Jones
Mrs. Ford – Evan Kardon
Dima’s Mother/Lupe Marín – Zaray Rodriguez
Mrs. Rockefeller/Natalia Trotsky – Mariya Kaganskaya
Alejandro/Leon Trotsky – Dominick Corbacio
Mr. Ford – Isaac Frishman
Petate Vendor/Mr. Kahlo/Mr. Rockefeller – Benjamin Dickerson
Barker Sean Galligan
Calavera/Edward G. Robinson – Simon Dyer
Conductor – Roberto Kalb
Revival Director and Choreographer – Marco Pelle
Production – Jose Maria Condemi
Production Provided By Michigan Opera Theatre
Sung in English and Spanish with English and Spanish projected translations
FORT LAUDERDALE
Miramar Cultural Center
Mar 16, 2019, at 7:30pm
Mar 17, 2019, at 3:00pm
Parker Playhouse
Mar 28 and 30, 2019, at 7:30pm
MIAMI
Miami-Dade County Auditorium
Mar 21, 2019, at 8:00pm
Mar 23, 2019, at 7:00pm
Mar 24, 2019, at 3:00pm
Florida Grand Opera
8390 NW 25th Street
Miami FL 33122
Box Office: 1.800.741.1010
www.fgo.org
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