Director
Francesca Murray-Fuentes
Conductor
Odaline de la Martinez
Designer
Lu Herbert
Lighting Designer
Barnaby Booth
Music
Robert Rodriguez
Lyrics and Monologues
Migdalia Cruz
Deputy Stage Manager
Emilie Leger
Artistic Director
David Ward
Assistant Director
Jonathan Rainy Reid
Assistant Conductor
Ben Frampton
Assistant Designer
Rosaleen Orr
Movement Director
Patricia Verity Suarez
Book and Concept
Hilary Blecher
Production Manager
Louise Garner
Assistant Stage Manager
Kat Tyler
Set Build
John Hornsby
Music by Robert Rodriguez
Book by Hilary Blecher
Lyrics and Monologues by Migdalia Cruz
Direction by Francesca Murray-Fuentes
Assistant Direction by Jonathan Rainey Reid
Conducted by Odaline de la Martinez
Assistant Conducted by Ben Frampton
Sung in both Spanish and English, Frida is the story of renowned Méxican artist Frida Kahlo, wife of the country’s great muralist Diego Rivera. Diego’s preoccupation with art and other women shrivel Frida’s soul and her demands for love drain him; they need one another desperately. Divorce is imminent. Frida’s health deteriorates; only painting permits emotional release, translating her agonies into a series of canvases. Her fate is to live alone, engulfed by pain, but her paintings live forever, reflecting hidden dreams and inspiring courage to transcend conventional boundaries.
Performed and acclaimed in the US, Mexico and Europe, the Leeds Opera Festival will present the UK premiere of Robert Rodriguez musical biography of Frida Kahlo. Described by USA Today as "exciting, raw, wonderfully dangerous theater", the production will be conducted by Cuban-American Odaline de la Martinez - a renowned contemporary music conductor and the first female conductor at the BBC Proms - and directed by Francesca Murray-Fuentes.
Production photography from Frida can be found below.
Design by Lu Herbert
Assistant Design by Rosaleen Orr
Lighting by Barnaby Booth
Images ©Rhian Hughes