The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Composer
Mason Bates
Premiere
THE Metropolitan OPERA • 2025
Commissioned by
THE Metropolitan OPERA
Based on Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. 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 scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’ 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.