OPERA

Kevin Puts: The Hours

WEDNESDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 & 10, 2022 (continuing through DECEMBER 15)
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY
1:00 PM SATURDAY

Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, Manhattan

$49.50-$497.50
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Kevin Puts had a tremendous success ten years ago with Silent Night, an opera about the World War I Christmas Truce. If it was too conventional for me, what do I know, I’m only The Compiler? So now The Met has commissioned him to write an opera of the movie of Michael Cunningham’s novel (taking off from Mrs. Dalloway). And instead of the star trio of Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, we get the opera equivalent: Renée Fleming, Joyce DiDonato, and Kelli O’Hara. OK, I have a bad feeling about this. But what do I know? I’m only The Compiler.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Both P.J. Clarke’s and Cafe Fiorello are supposed to be open after the evening shows. The Saturday matinée poses no problem.