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The Hours is a 2022 opera in two acts with music by Kevin Puts and an English-language libretto by Greg Pierce, based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel and its 2002 film adaptation, both with the same title.
A compelling new opera about three women in different times and places, The Hours is based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Michael Cunningham and the Academy Award–winning film adaptation that followed.
Dec 10, 2022 · Overview. Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel.
Dec 1, 2022 · Running time: 2 HOURS, 55 MIN. Production: A Metropolitan Opera production of an opera in two acts with music by Kevin Puts and libretto by Greg Pierce, based on the novel by Michael Cunningham...
Nov 23, 2022 · “The Hours” — a new opera based on the 1998 novel and the 2002 film it inspired — features a redoubtable trio of prima donnas. And it was conceived as a vehicle for one of them, the soprano...
Synopsis: Select a language to update the synopsis text. Composer. Kevin Puts. Librettist. Greg Pierce.
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May 6, 2024 · “The Hours” is based on Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, and on Stephen Daldry’s 2002 film adaptation. But the opera may be too loyal to its...
