Interview: Gabriela Lena Frank of San Diego Opera's THE LAST DREAM OF FRIDA AND DIEGO at San Diego Civic Center (Broadway World)

By Ron Bierman

September 21, 2022

The opera El último sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) premieres in October at the San Diego Civic Center. I spoke with the work's composer Gabriela Lena Frank for more than an hour via Zoom while she was in Booneville, the rural area North of San Francisco where she lives. Although the opera is her first, her orchestral music has been performed by an impressive number of major orchestras including those of Cleveland, Philadelphia and Boston. And despite the challenge of a serious hearing deficiency from birth, she's produced music the New York Times described as "brilliantly effective," while the Los Angeles Times chimed in with "glorious."

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