The Hours NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (33)
See it if You want to experience three incredible opera stars surrounded by a spectacular production with an Innovative use of the chorus.
Don't see it if You don't like contemporary opera as this will not be for you. You don't like 3-hour long productions with many quiet moments.
See it if you want to experience a beautiful opera in English with top quality performances.
Don't see it if you don't like opera or intertwining stories over different time periods.
See it if The 3 female leads are just about the best opera has to offer. Their voices are lyrical and enchanting. Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara and
Don't see it if If you do not like opera. At least it is in English. Read more
See it if you want to enjoy an opera in English, energetically conducted with great singing by the three leads and a large chorus well choreographed.
Don't see it if you do not like a lot of moving sets or three stories intertwined whre the focus keep changing among their presentation.
See it if You want a magnificent production w excellent singing, outstanding choreography of haunting chorus; you love opera & open to modern piece
Don't see it if You’re an opera purist and can’t stand opera sung in English, you dislike depressing themes
See it if you love great voices, big staging, and choreography to create moving interwoven stories that pierce your feelings and are deeply touching.
Don't see it if you prefer action-packed thrillers. This is slow and brings forth feelings of sorrow, regret, and deals with deep depression.
See it if you enjoy opera and want to see a poignant piece with an engaging story and stellar performances from the three leads.
Don't see it if you want to be fully engaged from start to finish. The play is slow in spots, and I found it hard to hear and relied on reading the text.
See it if Three superstars singing on a big stage with a huge cast. A must see for fans of Woolf.
Don't see it if Libretto is hard not to laugh out loud at. Slow.
Critic Reviews (8)
This may sound lofty for an operatic adaptation, but the medium has a favorable condition: a large stage where time periods — and the specific individual emotions contained in them — share a temporal space. Owing to the staging by Phelim McDermott, this operatic version is resplendent in the emotions propelled by Kevin Puts's music and its three leading ladies.
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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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"Phelim McDermott’s production is brilliant in how it takes the libretto’s structure, Puts’ musical interpretation, and then layers it with a similarly vast theatrical palette. ... You can add 'The Hours' to the list of must-see operas this season."
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