Mason Bates's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

In a new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Baritone Andrzej Filończyk makes his Met debut as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.

Presented from New York by Debra Lew Harder and Ira Siff

Bates: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Joe Kavalier ..... Andrzej Filończyk (baritone)
Sam Clay ..... Miles Mykkanen (tenor)
Rosa Saks ..... Sun-Ly Pierce (mezzo-soprano)
Sarak Kavalier ..... Lauren Snouffer (soprano)
Tracy Bacon ..... Edward Nelson (baritone)
Sheldon Anapol ..... Patrick Carfizzi (bass-baritone)
Gerhard ..... Craig Colclough (bass-baritone)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)