Ruth Leon recommends… The Hours – Metropolitan Opera
Ruth Leon recommendsThe Hours – Metropolitan Opera
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The Hours has been the big hit of the Metropolitan Opera’s season and it is now available to stream on Met Opera on Demand. This world-premiere production stars sopranos Renée Fleming and Kelli O’Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as three women from different eras whose lives are connected through Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway.
The Hours is Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts and librettist Greg Pierce’s adaptation from Michael Cunningham’s novel and the Oscar-winning film it inspired.
The conductor is Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the director is Phelim McDermott whose breathtaking staging came in for universal critical praise.
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Here’s my PR-Marketing stunt recommendation for Peter Gelb:
Expand this boring opera into a ballet and call it ‘The Dance of the Hours.’… put the three aging singers in tutus and take it from there… fill some of those empty seats!