Works & Process presents The Metropolitan Opera’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay on Monday, September 8, 2025 at 7pm at Guggenheim New York in the Peter B. Lewis Theater, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10128. Tickets can be purchased at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/guggenheim/3515/event/1434911.

Enjoy an advance look at the exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which opens the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 season on September 21. Set shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the opera follows two Jewish cousins who invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic book series, hoping to recruit the United States into the fight against Nazism.

Featuring an eclectic score by composer Mason Bates that incorporates scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, the opera moves seamlessly through the three distinct worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York, and the technicolor realm of comic book fantasy. Ahead of the opera’s thrilling premiere, Met general manager Peter Gelb moderates a conversation with director Barlett Sher, Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Bates and Scheer. Mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce, tenor Miles Mykkanen, and baritone Andrzej Filończyk perform highlights from the score, then join the discussion.

Continue the conversation at a post-performance reception in the rotunda.