Gabriela Lena Frank's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego is a genuinely rare thing: a contemporary opera that is as visually ravishing as it is emotionally profound. It brings Frida Kahlo back from the underworld for one final reckoning with love, pain, and the enduring power of art.

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is one of the most extraordinary works in the history of Western music, and experiencing it on the big screen is something close to a revelation. This is a review for anyone who has ever wondered whether opera might be for them, and for anyone who already knows it is.