Met Opera: The Hours
$37-$470 ($25 rush tickets)
- Renée Fleming, soprano (Clarissa Fleming)
- Kelli O'Hara, soprano (Laura Brown)
- Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano (Virginia Woolf)
- William Burden, tenor (Louis)
- Sean Panikkar, tenor (Leonard Woolf)
- Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone (Richard)
- Brandon Cedel, bass-baritone (Dan Brown)
- Kensho Watanabe, conductor
Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts's hit new opera, which played to sold-out audiences during its world-premiere production last season, triumphantly returns. The original trio of legendary divas—sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O'Hara, and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato—reprise their celebrated portrayals of three women from different eras whose lives are connected through Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen also returns as the dying author Richard, and Kensho Watanabe conducts Phelim McDermott's gripping staging of this heart-wrenching drama, adapted from Michael Cunningham's acclaimed novel and the Oscar-winning film it inspired.
Note: The Hours contains themes of suicide. If you or someone you know is considering self-harm or suicide, help is available from the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988 or visiting 988lifeline.org.
Runs May 5-31.
Estimated run time: 3 hrs.
Sung in English. Met Titles available in English, German, and Spanish.
$25 rush tickets are available for every performance and go on sale for Monday through Friday evening performances at noon, for matinees four hours before curtain, and for Saturday evenings at 2pm. Learn more about the Met's rush ticketing program here.