Frida and Diego
The Met: Live in HD will return to Guild Hall with a live transmission of “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” the first opera by Gabriela Lena Frank, an American composer, on Saturday at 1 p.m.
Created as a reversal of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, the story shows Frida Kahlo, sung by Isabel Leonard, a mezzo-soprano, leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead and reuniting with Diego Rivera, portrayed by Carlos Álvarez, a baritone.
In his review for The New York Times, Joshua Barone called the opera “remarkably accomplished,” adding, “Álvarez held the enormous Met stage with his sound, and Leonard, while less rich and dusky than Daniela Mack in earlier productions, nevertheless had a commanding and charismatic presence.”
The production is by Deborah Colker, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Tickets are $35.
Composers’ Firsts
Reflections in Music, led by Bruce Wolosoff, its artistic director, will return to The Church in Sag Harbor with “Opus One,” a program of the first published works by composers, Friday evening at 7.
The selected works include Beethoven’s early chamber writing, Paganini’s self-portrait as a violin virtuoso, Rachmaninoff’s lyricism, and Alban Berg’s late-Romantic intensity breaking through into modernism, according to The Church. It also features the first published works by Bach and Vivaldi, as well as Wolosoff’s own first work, “Bodhisattva,” a piano trio.
Wolosoff, a composer and musician, will play piano and introduce each piece. He will be joined by Max Tan and Deborah Buck on violin and Amy Barston on cello. “An ‘opus one’ is a moment of arrival, when a composer steps forward and declares, ‘This is who I am,’ ” Wolosoff said.
Tickets are $30.
‘Mister Halston’
“Mister Halston,” a play by Raffaele Pacitti about the famed American fashion designer, will have its world premiere at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor with a three-week run starting Tuesday at 7 p.m. The one-actor play is a fictionalized version of an interview conducted for The New York Times in Halston’s Upper East Side apartment that traces the designer’s rise, fame, and eventual fall.
The production is directed by Michael Wilson, co-produced by Bruce Robert Harris and Donna Karan, and stars Matt McGrath in the title role. McGrath has appeared in Broadway’s “Cabaret,” Off Broadway in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” and at Bay Street in “Japes,” “The Lady in Question,” “Beyond Therapy,” and “Bell, Book, and Candle.”
Tickets are $59.99 to $139.99. The show will run through June 21.
Fabulous Times Two
An Our Fabulous Variety Show drag brunch on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Frankie’s Fabulous Italiano restaurant in East Hampton will feature the drag queens RaffaShow, Julia Van Cartier, and Miss Nina.
Tickets are $50 in advance, $65 at the door, and include a brunch buffet and one drink. V.I.P. tables for four are $350. A cash bar will also be available.
