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Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met 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 by the Oscar-winning 2002 film version starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, the powerful story concerns three women from different eras who each grapple with their inner demons and their roles in society. The exciting premiere radiates with star power, with Kelli O’Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joining Fleming as the opera’s trio of heroines. Phelim McDermott—who most recently wowed Met audiences with his staging of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten—directs this compelling drama, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct Puts’s poignant and powerful score.

Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met 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 by the Oscar-winning 2002 film version starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, the powerful story concerns three women from different eras who each grapple with their inner demons and their roles in society. The exciting premiere radiates with star power, with Kelli O’Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joining Fleming as the opera’s trio of heroines. Phelim McDermott—who most recently wowed Met audiences with his staging of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten—directs this compelling drama, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct Puts’s poignant and powerful score.

Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met 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 by the Oscar-winning 2002 film version starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, the powerful story concerns three women from different eras who each grapple with their inner demons and their roles in society. The exciting premiere radiates with star power, with Kelli O’Hara and mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato joining Fleming as the opera’s trio of heroines. Phelim McDermott—who most recently wowed Met audiences with his staging of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten—directs this compelling drama, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct Puts’s poignant and powerful score.

Musicians from the Met Orchestra
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Kevin Puts, host

Program

Kevin Puts — Selections from The Hours

Mozart — "Non più di fiori," from La clemenza di Tito

Kevin Puts — Credo

Kevin Puts — Seven Seascapes

Kevin Puts — Of All the Moons

Shostakovitch: Trio for violin, cello & piano, Op. 8
Brahms: Zwei Gesänge Op.91 for mezzo-soprano, piano & viola
Brahms: Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano
Von Ewiger Liebe Op. 42
Unbewegte Laue Luft Op. 57 No.8
Chausson: Chanson Perpetuelle, for mezzo-soprano, piano & string quartet
Elgar: Quintet for piano and strings, Op. 84

Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo- soprano
Kobi Malkin, violin
Carmit Zori, violin
Misha Amory, viola
Tony Rymer, cello
Janice Carissa, piano

Hilary Purrington
Words for Departure

Walker
Lilacs

Beethoven
Symphony No. 9

Nathalie Stutzmann, Conductor

Talise Trevigne, Soprano

Robin Tritschler, Tenor

Leon Košavić, Baritone

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Hilary Purrington
Words for Departure

Walker
Lilacs

Beethoven
Symphony No. 9

Nathalie Stutzmann, Conductor

Talise Trevigne, Soprano

Robin Tritschler, Tenor

Leon Košavić, Baritone

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Hilary Purrington
Words for Departure

Walker
Lilacs

Beethoven
Symphony No. 9

Nathalie Stutzmann, Conductor

Talise Trevigne, Soprano

Robin Tritschler, Tenor

Leon Košavić, Baritone

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem

Rafael Payare, conductor
Leah Crocetto, soprano
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Limmie Pulliam, tenor
Aleksey Bogdanov, baritone
San Diego Master Chorale

Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem

Rafael Payare, conductor
Leah Crocetto, soprano
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Limmie Pulliam, tenor
Aleksey Bogdanov, baritone
San Diego Master Chorale

To celebrate the New York Philharmonic's return to The McKnight Center, we’ve planned an unforgettable black tie gala event. More than 100 student, alumni, and community voices will join the musicians onstage for the grand finale of Beethoven’s ninth symphony. Considered to be his masterpiece, you’ll be swept up in the grandeur and triumph of “Ode to Joy.” All tickets to the Gala Concert include a celebratory reception held in the Marilynn and Carl Thoma Atrium as well as complimentary parking in the 4th Avenue Garage.

Featured Soloists
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Thomas Cooley, tenor
Peixin Chen, bass

The student chorus will be directed by Dr. Tony Thornton, Director of Choral Activities at Oklahoma State University's Greenwood School of Music.

PROGRAM

Frank Pachamama Meets an Ode*

Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”)

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s residency finale is highlighted by Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Written just a few short years before his death, “Beethoven’s profound ode to brotherhood, salvation, and pure joy reminds us why we are here as an orchestra,” says Yannick, “and why we constantly try to make our world better by playing music.”
Philadelphia Orchestra Composer-in-Residence Gabriela Lena Frank draws inspiration from Beethoven and her Peruvian culture in Pachamama Meets an Ode, challenging us to look at gifts from the past with new and searching eyes.

The evening culminates with a brilliant fireworks display.

PERFORMERS

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Angel Blue, soprano
Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Russell Thomas, tenor
Ryan McKinny, bass-baritone
Albany Pro Musica, chorus

A musical retelling of the centuries-old story of the Pied Piper.

A minister seeking re-election promises the people he will rid their country of its rats, even though he knows they do no harm. A stranger, who has no face, offers to lead the rats away in exchange for money. A bargain is struck and the rats disappear, but when the minister is re-elected he reneges on the deal, saying the money has been better spent on "barbed wire and education", and the stranger leads the children away to the light "inside the little hill".

The highly anticipated world premiere with music by Gregory Spears, composer of the acclaimed 2016 commission Fellow Travelers, and a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning recent U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Set during the mortgage crisis of 2008, with flashbacks to 1966 as well as to the 19th Century, Castor and Patience tells the story of African American cousins who find themselves at odds over the fate of land owned by members of their family.

The highly anticipated world premiere with music by Gregory Spears, composer of the acclaimed 2016 commission Fellow Travelers, and a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning recent U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Set during the mortgage crisis of 2008, with flashbacks to 1966 as well as to the 19th Century, Castor and Patience tells the story of African American cousins who find themselves at odds over the fate of land owned by members of their family.

The highly anticipated world premiere with music by Gregory Spears, composer of the acclaimed 2016 commission Fellow Travelers, and a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning recent U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Set during the mortgage crisis of 2008, with flashbacks to 1966 as well as to the 19th Century, Castor and Patience tells the story of African American cousins who find themselves at odds over the fate of land owned by members of their family.

The highly anticipated world premiere with music by Gregory Spears, composer of the acclaimed 2016 commission Fellow Travelers, and a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning recent U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Set during the mortgage crisis of 2008, with flashbacks to 1966 as well as to the 19th Century, Castor and Patience tells the story of African American cousins who find themselves at odds over the fate of land owned by members of their family.

The highly anticipated world premiere with music by Gregory Spears, composer of the acclaimed 2016 commission Fellow Travelers, and a libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winning recent U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Set during the mortgage crisis of 2008, with flashbacks to 1966 as well as to the 19th Century, Castor and Patience tells the story of African American cousins who find themselves at odds over the fate of land owned by members of their family.

Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria: “Was die Seele kann ergötzen”
(“What can delight the soul”),
from Cantata BWV 30a
Jennifer Johnson Cano,
Tara Helen O’Connor, Daniel Phillips
Ripieno: Catherine Cho, Carmit Zori,
Todd Phillips, Marcy Rosen,
Ieva Jokubaviciute

Maurice Ravel
Chansons Madécasses
Jennifer Johnson Cano,
Tara Helen O’Connor, Marcy Rosen
Ieva Jokubaviciute

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet in C Major, K. 515
Carmit Zori, Catherine Cho,
Todd Phillips, Daniel Phillips, Peter Stumpf

Johann Sebastian Bach
Aria: “Ich habe genug”
(“I am content”), from Cantata BWV 82
Jennifer Johnson Cano, Peggy Pearson
Ripieno: Catherine Cho, Todd Phillips,
Daniel Phillips, Marcy Rosen,
Ieva Jokubaviciute

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285
Tara Helen O’Connor, Daniel Phillips,
Todd Phillips, Peter Stumpf

Ernest Chausson
Chanson Perpétuelle, Opus 37
Jennifer Johnson Cano, Carmit Zori,
Todd Phillips, Daniel Phillips,
Peter Stumpf, Ieva Jokubaviciute

INTERMISSION

Johannes Brahms
String Quintet in G Major, Opus 111
Todd Phillips, Carmit Zori, Daniel Phillips,
Catherine Cho, Marcy Rosen