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The Hours

Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Metropolitan Opera in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and made a household name…

War and Peace

A colossal work beyond all previous boundaries, Sergei S. Prokofiev’s monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy’s epic novel, War and Peace. The composer and his wife Mira have compressed the plot, set during Napoleon’s Russian campaign, into a powerful sequence…