Kavalier and Clay
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Mason Bates - New Production
January 24, 2026

Baritone Andrzej Filończyk and tenor Miles Mykkanen portray two Jewish cousins hoping to influence America to fight the Nazis with an anti-fascist superhero comic.

In this exhilarating 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. 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. 

Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates's eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer's libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher's production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections, and Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.

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