The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The Met: Encore in HD presents

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

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Sunday, February 1, 2026 at 1 p.m. Doors open at 12:30 p.m.

STANDARD – $25.01 CHILD (ages 18 & under) – $5 STUDENT – $5 (valid student I.D. will need to be shown upon arrival)

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Opera is sung in: English Runtime: 3 HRS 7 MINS with One Intermission

Music by Mason Bates | Libretto by Gene Scheer Based on the Book by Michael Chabon
This is an encore presentation of the Live in HD: performance presented on January 25, 2026

Added due to popular demand, the Met-premiere production of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay arrives in cinemas, recorded live earlier this season. The exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two Jewish cousins who create a comic-book superhero, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the dynamic new production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher.

Cast:

Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor)

Lauren Snouffer (Sarah Kavalier)

Sun-Ly Pierce (Rosa Saks)

Miles Mykkanen (Sam Clay)

Andrzej Filończyk (Joe Kavalier)

Edward Nelson (Tracy Bacon)

Event Note: This is an encore cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.