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Mason Bates’ New Opera at the MET

November 19, 2025 By Guy St. Clair

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay We first started hearing about this opera back in the spring of this year when it was announced for the MET’s opening program for the season. While I was unfamiliar with the source material (Michael Chabon’s 2001 novel with the same name as the opera), I found it …

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Filed Under: Current Events, Music, Personal History Tagged With: Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (opera), Bates, Bates (Mason), Chabon (Michael), Filończyk (Andrezej), Gelb (Peter), Goodwin (Jay), MET Opera, Metropolitan Opera Association, Mykkanen (Miles), Nézet-Séguin (Yannick), Pierce (Sun-Ly), Scheer (Gene), Sher (Bartlett), Terrell (Katelan Trãn)

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