DIGITAL PROGRAM / PORTLAND OPERA PREMIERE: JUNE 22, 2021 atOMSI museum campus CARE Schnitzer Jordan 2021 27, & 26 24, 22, June Summerstage The opera & company: FRIDA

Composed by Robert Xavier Rodríguez Libretto by Hilary Blecher, Migdalia Cruz In Two Acts

June 22, 24, 26, 27 PORTLANDOPERA.ORG Conductor Andrés Cladera * Stage Director & Production Designer Andreas Mitisek Lighting Designer Carl Faber Sound Designer Brian Mohr Assistant Conductor Nicholas Fox Principal Accompanist Sequoia Production Stage Manager Jon Wangsgard Assistant Director Eric Lyness *

The Cast (in order of vocal appearance)

Calaveras/Cristina Kahlo/Mrs. Ford Aline Bahamondez Calaveras/Lupe Marin/Mrs. Rockefeller/Natalia Trotsky Rachel Hauge * Calaveras/Alejandro/Mr. Ford/Barker/Leon Trotsky Joseph Michael Muir Calaveras/Guillermo Kahlo/Mr. Rockefeller/E.G. Robinson Adrian Rosales-Casillas * Frida Kahlo Catalina Cuervo * Diego Rivera Bernardo Bermudez *

Performed in English and Spanish with projected text

Premiere: American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia, 1991 Portland Opera Premiere: June 22, 2021

* Portland Opera Debut

Costumes and props created by Portland Opera Projected English and Spanish surtitles written and produced by Florida Grand Opera. Spanish titles created by Dreambay Enterprises for Florida Grand Opera Stage structure provided by Stages Northwest, Inc.

Sound system provided by Carlson Audio Systems FRIDA• 1 Video screens and cameras provided by Really Big Video By arrangement with G. Schirmer, INC., publisher and copyright owner.

There will be no intermission. Total running time is approximately 95 minutes.

Recording equipment, cameras and personal phones are prohibited. From General Director Sue Dixon FRIDA PORTLANDOPERA.ORG

It is with great joy and excitement that I welcome you to Portland Opera’s premiere of Frida! We are all delighted to be able to perform for a live audience for the first time since February 2020.

So much has happened in the last 16 months. This has been a difficult time for our community, and our arts and cultural institutions, so we wanted to lift each other up in partnership. We are grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with our neighbors at OMSI and our friends at Oregon Ballet Theatre to create this safe outdoor performance venue.

We are also excited to share the stage with the talented young dancers of local dance troupe Corazones Alegres Ballet Folklórico. We hope you enjoy their performance as much as we do.

Music is healing. So is gathering together in community. Thank you for joining us tonight to share in the unparalleled experience of live performance. We are grateful for your patronage, your support, and your presence. FRIDA• 2 Synopsis: FRIDA

Sung in both Spanish and English, Frida is the story of renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, wife of the country’s great muralist Diego Riviera. Her tortured life unfolds in a flowing succession of scenes, acted and sung by two women and two men in a variety of guises—masked or plain-faced—and as two or three dimensional puppets; shadow puppets and projections are also involved. Diego’s preoccupation with art and other women shrivel Frida’s soul and her demands for love drain him; they need one another

PORTLANDOPERA.ORG 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.

ACT I Scene 1: Mexico City in 1925. Frida and her boyfriend Alejandro board a bus. The bus crashes, Frida is severely injured, begins her life as a painter. Scene 2: 1927-1929, Frida meets and marries Diego Rivera. Scene 3: 1929-30. Diego’s work is denounced in Mexico. The Riveras resolve to try their luck in the USA. Scene 4: New York City in 1931. Frida and Diego meet Rockefeller, who commissions the mural Man at the Crossroads. Scene 5: 1932. Rockefeller complains about including Lenin in the mural. The mural is destroyed and Frida miscarries.

ACT II Scene 1: San Angel, Mexico. Frida ignores the parade of women through Diego’s bedroom, but is horrified to discover her sister, Cristina, among them. Scene 2: San Angel, Mexico 1937. Leon Trotsky and his wife join the Riveras in their house. Frida and Trotsky have a love affair. Scene 3: Frida’s Bath. Frida retreats to the seclusion of her bath and the comfort of female lovers. Scene 4: New York. Frida has a love affair with photographer Nicholas Murray and sells her first paintings. Frida and Diego divorce. Scene 5: Calaveras (Mexican death figures) appear in Frida’s imagination as she is haunted by her physical and emotional pain. Scene 6: Finale – In delirium, Frida relives episodes of her life. Diego and Frida remarry. She departs with a cry of “Viva, la vida…allegría…and Diego.”

Courtesy of Long Beach Opera FRIDA• 3 PORTLANDOPERA.ORG The orchestra: The FRIDA Sequoia Piano Nicholas Fox Accordion Keyboard Gordon Rencher Percussion Charles Butler Trumpet/Flugelhorn Jennifer Nelson Clarinet/Saxophone Margaret Violin from The CARES Act Fund. Coronavirus Relief County,Multnomah and the Arts Education & Fund,Access and support special Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, support from including the City of Foundation,Miller Oregon Arts Commission, Community Oregon Foundation, National the for Endowment Arts, The Collins Foundation, James F. L. and Marion Portland donors, generous our Opera appreciates also The support of the ongoing (OMSI), and Industry Science of Schnitzer & The Harold and Schnitzer CAREArlene Foundation, Museum Oregon This byCarol production made possible was Franc Foundation, Buck Jordan SPECIAL THANKS Bichteler Meet members of the Portland Operaby visiting: Orchestra Portland the of members Meet , Concertmaster Consider making a gift to Portland Opera. Learn more at at Opera. more Learn Portland making aConsider to gift portlandopera.org portlandopera.org/support TriMet , and /about/people Orox

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Aline Bahamondez Calaveras, Cristina Kahlo, and Mrs. Ford

Pronouns PORTLANDOPERA.ORG she/her/hers Hometown: Hillsboro, Oregon Portland Opera Debut: The Page, Rigoletto, 2018 Recent Credits: Chorus, Portland Opera, 2009-2021; Soloist, Brahms Requiem, Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland Upcoming Performances: Soloist, An Evening with the Portland Opera Orchestra, Portland Opera; Chorus, Tosca, Portland Opera

Bernardo Bermudez Diego Rivera Pronouns he/him/his Hometown: San Diego, California Portland Opera Debut Recent Credits: Diego Rivera, Frida, Long Beach Opera and Anchorage Opera; El Dancairo, Carmen and A Messenger, Aida, San Diego Opera; Mario’s Father, Il Postino for Opera Santa Barbara Upcoming Performances: Series of concerts for San Diego Opera in 2021, Woodsman/Fox, The Enchanted Tail, Opera4Kids; A

messenger and Radames Cover, Aida, Sociedad Artística FRIDA• 5 Sinaloense Mexico in 2022 About the artists: FRIDA

Andrés Cladera Conductor

Pronouns he/him/his Hometown:

PORTLANDOPERA.ORG Montevideo, Uruguay Portland Opera Debut Recent Credits: Pianist, Ben Gulley Concert, Dallas Opera; Conductor, Summer Concert, Steamboat Symphony Orchestra; Conductor, Rusalka, Opera Steamboat Upcoming Performances: Pianist, Concert with Ben Gulley, Brussels Symphony Hall; Pianist Concert with Michelle DeYoung, Amsterdam Symphony Hall; Conductor, Ariadne auf Naxos, Opera Steamboat

Catalina Cuervo Frida

Pronouns she/her/hers Hometown: Miami, Florida Portland Opera Debut Recent Credits: Nedda, Pagliacci, Opera in Williamsburg; Frida, Frida, Anchorage Opera; Frida, Frida, Cincinnati Opera Upcoming Performances: Frida, Frida, Michigan Opera Theater; Frida, Frida, El Paso Opera; Musetta, La Bohème, Opera in Williamsburg FRIDA• 6 About the artists: FRIDA

Carl Faber Lighting Designer Pronouns he/him/his Hometown: PORTLANDOPERA.ORG Portland, Oregon Portland Opera Debut: Assistant Lighting Designer, La Bohème, 2017 Recent Credits: Lighting Designer, The Last Five Years, Broadway Rose Theatre Company Upcoming Performances: Lighting Designer, Analog & Vinyl, Broadway Rose

Rachel Hauge Calaveras/Lupe Marin/ Mrs. Rockefeller/Natalia Trotsky Pronouns she/her/hers Hometown: Corvallis, Oregon Portland Opera Debut Recent Credits: Suzuki, Madama Butterfly, Deutsche Oper Berlin; 2nd Twin, The Canterville Ghost, Oper Leipzig; Linetta, L'amour des trois oranges, Deutsche Oper Berlin FRIDA• 7 About the artists: FRIDA

Andreas Mitisek Director & Production Designer PORTLANDOPERA.ORG Hometown: Long Beach, California Portland Opera Debut: Conductor, Director, Production, & Video Designer, As One, 2019 Recent Credits: Director, video/production designer, commissioner, The Central Park Five, Long Beach Opera; Director, Production/video designer, new libretto, King Arthur, Long Beach Opera; Director, Production & Video Designer, Frida, Anchorage Opera

Brian Mohr Sound Designer Pronouns he/him/his Hometown: Palo Alto, California Portland Opera Debut: Sound Designer, Nixon in China, 2006 Recent Credits: Sound Designer, Fear No Music 20/21 digital season; Sound Designer, Journeys to Justice, Portland Opera Upcoming Performances:

Sound Designer, Ongoing seasons with Kronos FRIDA• 8 Quartet and Sun Valley Music Festival About the artists: FRIDA

Joseph Michael Muir Calaveras/Alejandro/ Mr. Ford/Barker/Leon Trotsky

Pronouns

PORTLANDOPERA.ORG he/him/his Hometown: Upland, California Portland Opera Debut: 2nd Priest, The Magic Flute, 2016 Recent Credits: Gas Station Attendant, Night Trip (Journeys to Justice), Portland Opera Upcoming Performances: Chorus, Tosc a, Portland Opera

Adrian Rosales-Casillas Calaveras/Guillermo Kahlo/ Mr. Rockefeller/E.G. Robinson

Pronouns he/him/his Hometown: Aloha, Oregon Portland Opera Debut Recent Credits Schaunard, La Bohéme, Tacoma Opera; Figaro, Le Nozze di Figaro, Social Distance Opera; William Dale, Silent Night, Opera San José Upcoming Performances:

Chorus, Tosc a, Portland Opera FRIDA• 9 PORTLANDOPERA.ORG Robert Xavier “one is Rodríguez the major American of Robert Xavier Rodríguez, composer Albany labels. Learn more at: Gasparo exclusively published is by music Carlo, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, The centers. musical and other Hague His Orchestra. London, in performed have been works chamber Rodriguez' Paris, Dijon, Monte Orchestra,Composers The Los Philharmonic,Angeles National Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra,Philharmonic Mexico City Philharmonic, Toronto Radio Orchestra, American Opera, The Festival, Music Aspen The Juilliard Focus and Music American Theater Festival Prince (now Music Theater), Dallas Opera, Grand Houston Mexico, New York City Opera, Music, Brooklyn Academy of RepertoryAmerican Theater, organizationsrecent bysuch seasons the as Vienna Slatkin Dorati, Eduardo Mata, James Neville Sir as such byconductors performed been has Rodríguez’ music lecturera guest and conductor. Texas of University at Dallas, the where Director is he of Dallas Symphony. Professor University of Chair currently He the at Endowed holds The Composer as served has Rodríguez Goddard Fellowship, awards from ASCAP and the Rockefeller Foundation, five NEA grants and the the de Composition Musicale Prince Pierre de Monaco Carter. international gained first Rodríguez 1971, recognition awarded in was he when the teachers Nadia have included His Boulanger, Jacob Los (USC),Angeles Lenox (Tanglewood), Fontainebleau (Conservatoire receivedRodríguez education early musical his San in (b.Antonio and in 1946) (UT),Austin children. for music thestrongly stage, recent for in to works years including the theater for and music orchestral, concerto, ballet, vocal, choral, chamber, solo Letters). written has Rodríguez all in genres language.” (American AcademyArts and Institute of and speaksalways and speaks the in composer’s personal it the reveals. in telling lies personality originality (Los Angeles humor” Times). of sense “Its encompassing that all with his moods seductively combine “glowing with a animation physical and delicate balance of (Washington Post), lyrical” (Musical “richly and America) “Romantically as described been has dramatic” generation” his (Texas of composers Monthly). music His FRIDA composers librettists: & The Palais . His work has received over 2000 professional. orchestral 2000 received has over and operatic work in His performances , Pro Lieberson Princier Arte , ACA, Urtext, nomination), (Grammy CRI First Edition, Schott, Naxos and in Monte Carlo Monte in Award from the American AcademyArts and Institute of and Letters. — but he has been drawn but been has he most DePriest http://www.robertxavierrodriguez.com/ . G. Schirmer Other honors include the include honors Other - in , Raymond Leppard, Sir Keith Lockhart and Leonard - Residence with theResidence San Symphony and theAntonio — - opera, and is recordedand is the Newport, on Crystal, Orion, His music music His by Prince Rainier and Princess Grace at Schauspielhaus Druckman Musica Summergarden Prix Lili Boulanger , Bruno Nova , The National Opera of ensemble. active is as He Maderna Américain Marriner Series, The Israel , a Guggenheim and Elliott , ) and) Paris. Antal

Prix FRIDA• 10 FRIDA• PORTLANDOPERA.ORG was awarded the 2013 Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwright Playwright Award Distinguished awarded Merrill was Helen ( the 2013 University, Wesleyan University, Holyoke Mount College, and Columbia University. Migdalia the Arts, of School Princeton University, and at College,Amherst lectured and guest at Yale Story Frida of Kahlo Collide musicals Eyes Tales include: plays Her Chicago Theater Company from 1991 Theater Festival Coast South ’05; Rep’s ’04, HPP writer and was Mark Taper Forum’s Festival; Play New Magic Omaha Theatre; from “Songs Coconut Hill” Festival Latino’93 at Teatro (London); Steppenwolf Theatre’s New LaboratoryPlaywrights’ at INTAR; Royal Court Theatre/New Dramatists Exchange ’94 Company (Los Angeles), others. among nurtured been She has byMaria Irene the for Intersection (Philadelphia); Arts/LATA Francisco); (San and Cornerstone Theater (Minneapolis); Théâtre Repertory Theatre (Cambridge); Cleveland Public Theatre Frank (Cleveland); Theatre FRIDA composers librettists: & The The for book raised the in Bronx. degree from Columbia University. She NEA Fellow, 1995 & Playwriting 1991 McKnight Fellow, a 1988 and received MFA her Part Of The House the Kennedy recipienta 1996 of Center’s Fund New for award Plays American for , and , ¡CHE ; the; libretto an opera, for Rushing Waters Running For No. Blood: 3 - CHE Frida - CHE!, Latins In La . Migdalia a 1997 was Salt, Fur, Miriam’s Flowers was writtenwas byHilary . at She taught playwriting To learn more, visit: d’aujourd , Welcome Back To Salamanca Mision hui (Montreal);hui Music American Theatre Festival Street Sense - (San Francisco);(San the Institute; Midwest Sundance (Chicago); Houston Grand Opera (Houston); Grand OperaAmerican Houston (Houston); (Chicago); (Vancouver,Players Latino B.C.); Chicago Theater Company (Mexico Red City);Old (London, Lion England); Vancouver Theater Greece (Athens); of Cafe (New York); Ateneo Festival Latino, Theatre For The City, New and the W.O.W. HOME, Music,Academy Monarch of Theater, Stage Company, Horizons, Playwrights INTAR, Brooklyn abroad Mines, Mabou including: at venues Classic various producedmusicals. been has across the work U.S. Her and written more than sixty plays, operas, screenplays, and Migdalia an award is Cruz Migdalia Cruz, librettist La Land, (a radio play). the for She wrote and lyrics book - PlaysLab 98. is an alumna of New Dramatists. New an alumna of is and born She was - https://www.migdaliacruz.com/ Blecher 98 Sackler Fellow98 at Connecticut Rep/UConn, a Shaliko Cigarettes and Moby , Lucy Loves Me, ; and lyrics and monologues for and monologues and; lyrics U.of (Chicago); Bay (Chicago); Area Festival Playwrights’ ’94, . Company, New York Shakespeare Festival’s Iowa/Playwrights’ Workshop,Iowa/Playwrights’ NYU’s Tisch and When Galaxy and Six The Puertorriqueño - Dreams Home of winning playwright who has has who playwright winning - Foro in - - Dick residence at Latino Sor Sor de laJuana Cruz Ines , NYCommTrust Lolita de En - Garde Arts, (PR); National(PR); , Frida: The Fornés Telling Lares Another PlayLabs ),and is is ),and , Bronx ’ Yellow Yellow

; FRIDA• 11 FRIDA• PORTLANDOPERA.ORG ABOUT BALLET FOLKLÓRICO Ashley Ashley Ayala Isabella Murillo Stephanie Kaliah Kalani Ortiz Valeria Juarez Dancers: found heritage, their in pride and dignity poise. movements, lyrical, culture Mexico. and colorful musical and traditions of practicing By the Youth an appreciation gaining while regions the the various for learn traditional of dances be performing.Gabriela will also Jalisco (La Negra and Las traditionally from the Mexican stateVeracruz of (La Llorona and La Bamba) and the state of from area dancers theThese Rockwood a young 20 willperform they celebrate of troupe We're thrilled to share the Jordan Schnitzer CARE Latino Network under the youth empowerment and violence prevention and program violence where theempowerment youth Latino under Network here. Gatica Corazones Alegres Corazones Cauich Ballet - Gonzalez - Sierra Mexican culture, heritage, and identity. - Gonzalez - Hernandez Folklórico Copetonas Ballet youth learn to reveal the story of each dance while developing each developing learn dance to while youth reveal of the story Laisha Solis Samatha Anahi Santos Keianna Samantha Garcia Danika Montoya Folklórico ). Four from dancers Ballet guest Gatica Sierra More details about this organization can be at performances of at performances - Dominguez - - Gonzalez Ortiz - - Dominguez Martinez Summerstage Frida Siana Fatima Ruiz Hayley Sophia Ramirez - with local dance minute program of dances dances programminute of . Ballet Sanchez Folklorico Dusicka Folklórico - Palestino - Sanchez Academia

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Laura Hassell, Producing Director

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Wigs / Makeup Sara Beukers, Designer & Supervisor Kellon Eason, Artist

Portland Opera is grateful for the support and cooperation of the American Guild of Musical Artists, the American Federation of Musicians, Local 99, FRIDA• 13 IATSE Local 28, and our medical advisors for making this project possible.

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