"Last fall the Metropolitan Opera debuted a new opera, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, composed by Michael Bates, with a libretto by Gene Scheer, who adapted Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Now, The Met Live is giving audiences a chance to see a filmed version of this production in cinemas on Jan. 24, with encore presentations on Jan. 26."
"The opera, which is performed in English, is ambitious and entertaining. It incorporates themes of belonging, art, and trauma into a story that has the Jewish Joe Kavalier (baritone Andrzej Filonczyk) escaping Prague in 1939 via a coffin to go live with his cousin, Sam Clay (tenor Miles Mykkanen), in Brooklyn. Joe has left his teenage sister Sarah (soprano Lauren Snouffer) behind, but he promises to send for her and their parents."
Michael Bates composed The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay with a libretto by Gene Scheer adapted from Michael Chabon, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin. The Metropolitan Opera debuted the English-language work last fall, and a filmed performance appears in cinemas Jan. 24 with encores on Jan. 26. The plot follows Jewish refugee Joe Kavalier escaping Prague in 1939 to Brooklyn, where he and cousin Sam Clay create The Escapist comic; the comic becomes wildly successful and spawns a radio production. Joe becomes involved with Rosa Saks of the Transatlantic Rescue Agency; romance, enlistments, and wartime tragedy drive the narrative. The production features imaginative sets and visual design by 59 Studios, real-time drawn images, living comic panels, an onstage superhero performer, and a detailed radio-play set piece with a foley artist.
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