The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season opened September 21 with Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay – and the reviews are in!

Based on Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, the opera 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. Baritone Andrzej Filończyk and tenor Miles Mykkanen star as the titular Kavalier and Clay.

Read the reviews here.

BroadwayWorld (Richard Sasanow)
Financial Times (Andrew Farach-Colton
New York Classical Review (George Grella)
The New York Times (Joshua Barone)*
OperaWire (David Salazar)
The Times (Kevin Ng)
TheaterMania (David Gordon)
The Wall Street Journal (Heidi Waleson)*

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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.

The cast also includes mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce as Rosa Saks, baritone Edward Nelson as Tracy Bacon, and bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi as Sheldon Anapol. Dancers Jeremy Rivera and Bonnie Wright portray the comic book superheroes The Escapist and Luna Moth. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mason Bates’ electronica-infused score.

Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher helms the production, which includes costumes by Jennifer Moeller, sound by Rick Jacobson, choreography by Mandy Moore, and sets, lighting, and video design by 59 Studio. Paul Cremo, the Met’s head of commissioning, serves as dramaturg.

The opening week of the Met's season includes revivals of Puccini's Turandot and Mozart's Don Giovanni. Later in the season will be hte Met premieres of Kaija Saariaho's Innocence and Gabriela Lena Frank's El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, as well as new productions of Bellini's La Sonnambula and I Puritani, and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

Performances of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay run September 21 - October 11. For more information, visit MetOpera.org.

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