Metropolitan Opera Live: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay has been added to The Met: Live in HD season for North American audiences. Captured live on the Met stage October 2, 2025, Kavalier & Clay will be screened in cinemas across the U.S. and Canada on January 24, 2026

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. 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 designed by Jenny Melville and Mark Grimmer of 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Opening Night premiere, and 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.

You may also like the following events from Martha's Vineyard Film Society:

• This Saturday, 15th November, 04:00 pm, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT in Vineyard Haven
• This Saturday, 15th November, 07:30 pm, Warren Miller’s SNO-CIETY in Vineyard Haven
• This Sunday, 16th November, 01:00 pm, CARAVAGGIO in Vineyard Haven

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