The colors of Mexico arrive at the Met 🏵️
The countdown is on for the Met premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz’s El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, with a vibrant new production by @deborahcolker that takes enthusiastic inspiration from Frida and Diego’s iconic paintings.
We spoke to co-costume designers @jonbausor and @wilberthgonzalez about the staging and working with artists from across Mexico to bring the production to life.
El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego is on stage May 14–June 5 and in cinemas May 30. Music Director @nezetseguin conducts.
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Videography by Muriel Steinke / Met Opera
Co costume designer Wilberth Gonzales and I rolling our sleeves up to talk to @elleusa about our costumes for the new production of El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz premiering at the Metropolitan Opera May 14th.
@metopera@ellemagazineuk@ellemagazineus
#costumedesign #costume #fridakahlo #mexicancostume #opera
Culturalframe.com on Frida and Diego: The Last Dream @themuseumofmodernart “The scenography, designed by Jon Bausor, intensifies this tension. Instead of neutral white cubes, the viewer moves through a constructed environment that borrows from theater: thresholds, symbolic props, and spatial interruptions that prevent passive looking. This is crucial. The exhibition does not ask for contemplation in the modernist sense; it asks for participation in a staged temporality where viewing is always slightly misaligned, as if one has entered the wrong act of a play already in progress.“ S. Goldman
#scenography #stagedesign #fridaanddiego #curation #fri̇dakahlo @culturalframe
Architectural Digest on Frida and Diego: The Last Dream @themuseumofmodernart
“In this sense, the exhibition departs from commemorative logic. It does not seek to celebrate, but to problematize. It does not seek to close a narrative, but to open one.The space designed by Bausor reinforces this intention: far from a neutral museography , it proposes a theatrical atmosphere that places the viewer within the narrative. The works cease to be autonomous objects and become active elements within a mise-en-scène.” Maite Basaguren @ad_magazine
#exhibitiondesign #stagedesign #fridaanddiego #curation #fridakahlo
The Price - Arthur Miller
Marylebone Theatre, London
Direction- Jonathan Munby
Set and Costume design - Jon Bausor
Lighting - Anna Watson
Sound- Max Pappenheim
Lovely team of creative friends and incredible support from the talents and generosity of Chris and Jonathan at @marcushallprops and Adrian Gwillym and his brilliant tailoring colleagues at @academycostumes . Thanks too to PM @itsesmedriscoll and set design assistant @jackvalentinedesign
#stagedesign #arthurmiller #setdressing #scenicdesign #costumedesign 📷 by @mark__snr
Back in Calgary, Canada to visit the workshops of @fdscenechanges who beautifully fabricated my tree sculpture for Frida and Diego and Diego; The Last Dream @themuseumofmodernart
It takes a village…..thanks to all the team!
#fridakahlo #fridaydiego #sculpture #contemporaryart #exhibitiondesign
