Great Performances at the Met: The Hours

Pictured: Kelli O’Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato

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Rochester's own Renée Fleming makes her return to the Met in this new opera by from Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s novel, inspired by Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway.”

Also inspired by the 2002 Oscar-winning film, the opera follows three women from different eras who each grapple with inner demons and their roles in society. The opera also stars Tony winner Kelli O’Hara and opera star Joyce DiDonato. Phelim McDermott directs with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. Christine Baranski hosts. Great Performances at the Met: The Hours airs Friday, March 17 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV.