Gabriela Lena Frank has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Music for her orchestral work Picaflor: A future myth. In announcing the prize Monday (May 4), the Pulitzer jury described the 30-minute piece as ...

Diego opera at the Met.

Colorado Music Festival brings some of the best classical music to Boulder throughout the summer. The Festival has also become a place to debut new classical works. One premiere this summer brings ...

Gabriela Lena Frank’s work about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is full of luxuriant color—visual and musical—in the company’s ...

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s fantasy about two titans of Mexican art, arrives at ...

Portland’s Oregon Symphony is celebrating after a work it co-commissioned, Gabriela Lena Frank’s Picaflor: A Future Myth, won ...

With a libretto by Nilo Cruz, the work had its world premiere at the San Diego Opera in 2022—later moving to San Francisco and Chicago’s Lyric Opera—but the Met offers an entirely new production by ...

Audiences could take in works by Strauss and Kaija Saariaho, as well as a new one by Gabriela Lena Frank about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. By Joshua Barone Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz’s work ...

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day ...

American Composers Orchestra, Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and Gateways Music Festival have been awarded significant grants from the Mellon Foundation. All three classical music ...

As music can travel through time, space, and lands, Gabriela Lena Frank has traveled through a multitude of worlds that now ...

Picaflor received its world premiere on March 13, 2025 when Marin Alsop led the Philadelphia Orchestra, which commissioned the work along with the Oregon Symphony and the Bravo! Vail Music Festival.