On stage, the interpreters of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. He is about to die. She has returned to the world of the living, but briefly, to reunite with her beloved/hated husband. “Life is short, but the light will continue,” sings the choir that surrounds them, marked by a luminous staging and the baton of director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The music has not yet finished when a practically full Lincoln Center bursts into applause, with rapturous shouts of “viva” in Spanish.
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