On stage, the performers are playing Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. He is about to die. She has returned to the world of the living, but only briefly, to be reunited with her beloved/loathed husband. “Life is brief, but the light will remain,” sings the chorus surrounding them, framed by a luminous staging and the baton of music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The music has not even finished when a near-capacity Lincoln Center erupts in applause, with ecstatic shouts of “viva,” in Spanish.Seguir l