Divamensch

Stephanie and I saw El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego on May 14, 2026. It's an opera with music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gabriela Lena Frank (she just won it a couple weeks ago!) on a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. The opera had its premiere in San Diego in 2022 and has also been produced at San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago. We didn't know it when we bought the tickets but we happened to see the Met premiere. The opera opens on

Stephanie and I saw Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at the Met on May 12, 2026. I was in the chorus of this opera in college so I know it pretty well. I've always loved it, it's my second time seeing it at the Met. I saw this production (directed by Deborah Warner) when it was new in 2013 and I really didn't like it, I thought it was drab and dull. I decided to take my chances and see it again because Asmik Grigorian was playing the female lead - - I heard her as Lady Macbeth in