Story/Teller Arts: The Hours with The Metropolitan Opera, Michael Cunningham, Eve Gigliotti, Greg Pierce, and Anne Fernald

We are thrilled to partner with The Metropolitan Opera to celebrate The Hours, which returns to the stage this May after its acclaimed sold-out run last season. A stunning adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Hours follows three women across different decades who are all impacted by Virginia Woolf’s classic novel Mrs. Dalloway. The opera adaptation further heightens the haunting parallel stories of Cunningham’s novel with a libretto by Greg Pierce that “artfully brings the women into even closer proximity” (Zachary Wolf, The New York Times).

Cunningham and Pierce join The Center for Fiction for a conversation about the process of adapting the book for the opera. They are also joined by a member of the cast—acclaimed mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti, who plays Nelly and also covers the role of Virginia Woolf. Moderating the discussion is Anne Fernald, a Woolf scholar and author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader. Come join us for a rousing conversation about The Hours and watch some exciting clips from the production.