PBS to Broadcast Kavalier & Clay Opera

The 20th season of Great Performances at the Met on PBS will include The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, available beginning Wednesday, April 1, on pbs.org/gperf and the PBS app.

In this new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of World War II, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. The score is by Mason Bates, with a libretto by Gene Scheer.

The production directed by Bartlett Sher’s features sets and projections designed by Jenny Melville and Mark Grimmer of 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts, 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.

David Gordon wrote in his review for TheaterMania, “It soars in the superhero realm, devastates in the human one, and, most importantly, offers an accessibility that won’t send newcomers to the opera running for the exit.”

The Great Performances at the Met season also includes La Bohème, La Sonnambula, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, and more.

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