Frida

Composer: Robert Rodriguez
Librettist: Hilary Blecher, Migdalia Cruz
Company: Detroit Opera

Synopsis

As a student, Frida spurned the taunts of the other girls, turning instead to the politics of the revolutionaries. When a near-fatal bus accident kept her bedridden, she found her own path to freedom in her paintings. Through love, pain, tragedy, and ultimately death, Frida’s identity and art remain a fierce cry of independence.  Based on the life of iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.