"It's a big sweeping novel, so it requires an enormous canvas and a lot of locations,"
"We started workshopping it a couple of years ago, and I realized I can't do this in the normal way."
"The worlds start to be really musically distinct and really visually distinct, and then everything starts to collide together throughout the course of the piece,"
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is set across Brooklyn, Prague, World War II battlefields, the Empire State Building, and an imagined superhero comic-book universe. The plot follows two Jewish cousins who create a comic hero intended to urge Americans to join the fight against the Nazis; their comic becomes a hit while war upends their lives. Director Bartlett Sher adapted the novel for the Met Opera season opener and confronted challenges staging rapid location changes. Studio 59, part of Journey, designed sets, lighting, and video elements to render multiple continents and comic-book pages, creating musically and visually distinct worlds that collide.
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