The Hours NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (46)
See it if Hearing these three great American women voices is a unique and wonderful experience. This dramatic opera also displays their great acting.
Don't see it if You don't like opera.
See it if You want to see four of the greatest female singers in a singular opera and/or you’re interested in modern operas.
Don't see it if You’re a musical theatre fan (not an opera fan) just going for Kelli. She’s terrific as always, but it won’t change your mind about opera.
See it if Wonderful performances by the three divas in the captivating opera. I still had to view the closed captions even though sung in English.
Don't see it if Not to be missed can't think of a reason not to see it.
See it if Stirring operatic adaptation of Michael Cunningham's book/film The Hours, especially if you're familiar with Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway. Brillian
Don't see it if If you don't like non-linear, intermingled multiple plot lines, or if you aren't an opera fan. Somewhat dark and themes include suicide
See it if moving stories how queer women/those reject role as mother drivn towrds suicide; scintilatng music; cinematic choreo; big cast fine singers
Don't see it if unrelentingly grim; takes some time for the 3 stories 2 intersect but when they do the 3 divas r divine togthr
See it if you want to see an excellent contemporary opera with a profound story on identity, womanhood, and connection.
Don't see it if you are not interested in opera.
See it if The set was amazing and the choreography was genius. The players in the background were incredible and need to be applauded
Don't see it if Nothing. We loved it
See it if you enjoy esoteric queer stories and can follow a writer, her reader, and her character on separate journeys and hold it all in your head
Don't see it if you're unfamiliar with operatic structure/conventions and are expecting it to feel like a Broadway musical Read more
Critic Reviews (10)
"Whirls of transparent, colorful, scintillating music, both choral and orchestral"
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" 'The Hours' is soul-stirring and a message about how time heals nothing and no one."
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"Every scene in the opera eventually gets to the same place musically and dramatically, whipped into soaring emotion. The tear-jerking gets tiring."
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" Far from being a spinoff of a spinoff, Kevin Puts’s The Hours mixes musical freshness and venerable traditions in a fine and moving music drama."
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"Most of the opera’s action scenes revolve around Clarissa, and their lack of musical momentum reveals the opera’s principal flaw: It has well-crafted episodes and deft, imaginative transitions, but the story arc is carried by the libretto rather than the music."
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"At the end of “The Hours,” you will find yourself energized by Puts’s splendid shape-shifting score, or the triple threat of its leads, or the richness of this multilayered narrative."
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" 'The Hours is by no means an evening of light entertainment...if you can make it to the end, you hear a remarkable trio, when the three women finally come together in a musical room of their own. Sorrow has never sounded more beautiful."
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"The new opera 'The Hours' is wonderful in the most old-fashioned kind of way. Not only has it been written for a diva, the show is about a diva – and in this case, three of them."
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