The Metropolitan Opera has announced that Mason Bates and Gene Scheer's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which was to have played its final performance this week, will be given four encore performances in February. The opera opened the Met season to favorable reviews, and has sold out its final fall performances.
The four additional performances will be February 17, 18, 20, and 21, 2026, with many of the original cast returning, including baritone Andrzej Filończyk as Joe Cavalier, tenor Miles Mykkanen as Sam Clay, and mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce as Rosa Saks. Conductor Michael Christie will make his Met debut leading three of the performances, with Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin returning to conduct the final performance February 21.
The opera has also been added to Met: Live in HD season for North American audiences. Although not originally part of this season's cinema lineup, the production was captured live October 2, 2025, and will be screened in cinemas across the U.S. and Canada beginning January 24, 2026. Students and educators across the country will receive complementary access to screenings as part of the Met's HD Live in Schools initiative.
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Based on Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay follows Josef Kavalier and Samuel Klayman, two Jewish cousins who break into the burgeoning comic book industry of the 1930s with the creation of an anti-fascist superhero called The Escapist, inspired by Josef's escape from Nazi-occupied Prague. The Bartlett Sher-helmed production features costumes by Jennifer Moeller, sound by Rick Jacobson, choreography by Mandy Moore, and sets, lighting, and video design by 59 Studio.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the latest in a string of operas based on great American novels presented by the Met, following successful runs of Kevin Puts' The Hours and Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick in recent seasons. This programming has brought a new and younger audience to the Met, with the company reporting that 35% of ticket buyers to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Claywere new to the Met, and 50% were aged 50 or younger.
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