Met Opera: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Clexical
- Aug 9, 2025
- 3 min read
Sunday, September 21, 2025 @ 6:30pm – 9:30pm (EDT)
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY, United States
$42-$1510
Lauren Snouffer, soprano (Sarah Kavalier)
Sun-Ly Pierce, mezzo-soprano (Rosa Saks)
Miles Mykkanen, tenor (Sam Klay)
Andrzej Filończyk, baritone (Joe Kavalier)
Edward Nelson, baritone (Tracy Bacon)
Patrick Carfizzi, bass-baritone (Sheldon Anapol)
Craig Colclough, bass-baritone (Gerhard)
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor
Mason Bates — The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (world premiere, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera)
In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates's eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer's libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher's production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by Jenny Melville and Mark Grimmer of 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the opening night premiere, and baritone Andrzej Filończyk makes his Met debut as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.
About The Metropolitan Opera
About Lauren Snouffer, soprano (Sarah Kavalier)
About Sun-Ly Pierce, mezzo-soprano (Rosa Saks)
About Miles Mykkanen, tenor (Sam Klay)
About Andrzej Filończyk, baritone (Joe Kavalier)
Andrzej Filończyk, baritone (b. 20.10.1994), began his studies in piano in 2000 at the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Oleśnica. He continued studying the piano at the Ryszard Bukowski Music School in Wrocław where he also began singing lessons under Bogdan Makal. From 2009-2011 he attended the School of Ballet and Dance at the Wrocław Opera. He finished singing studies under Bogan Makal at the Wrocław Academy of Music in 2017. Since June 2014 he has been attending to the Academy of Opera at the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera in Warsaw to class of Eytan Pessen. During season 2016/2017 Andrzej was a member of an International Opera Studio in Zurich Opera House. He won first price and award for the best polish voice in the Stanisław Moniuszko International Vocal Competition in Warsaw (Poland, May 2016). Since season 2015/2016 Andrzej Filończyk is a member of “GM Art and Music” Agency, represented by Gianluca Macheda. He has attended vocal workshops led by: Matthias Rexroth, Rudolf Piernay (Germany), Ryland Davis (Wales), Neil Shicoff (USA), Izabela Kłosińska, Teresa Żylis-Gara (Poland). Andrzej is the recipient of the of the Minister of Culture and Art scholarships and Hans und Eugenia Jutting- Stiftung Stipendium.
About Edward Nelson, baritone (Tracy Bacon)
About Patrick Carfizzi, bass-baritone (Sheldon Anapol)
Praised for his "vibrant" performances (The New York Times), his "handsome" and "impressive bass" (Opera Today), and his "rich, agile sound" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi celebrates his 25th anniversary season at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has given over 400 performances. This season, he returns there as the Sacristan in Tosca, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marco Armiliato, and Xian Zhang, alongside Sondra Radvanovsky, Lise Davidsen, and Aleksandra Kurzak over the course of thirteen performances. He sings Agata in Viva la Mamma and the title role in Cimarosa's Il maestro di cappella at Florentine Opera and he returns to the Met for Dr. Bartolo in Il barbiere di Sivigila, his first performance of this signature role at the company. In the summer months, he sings the title role in Don Pasquale at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
About Craig Colclough, bass-baritone (Gerhard)
Verdi's Macbeth has become a signature, serving as Colclough's debut at the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper and Luxembourg Opera. 2022 saw his return to the Royal Opera House Covent Gardens where he reprised his role as Telramund in Wagner's Lohengrin. Colclough is currently building the character of Alberich under the direction of Brigitte Fassbaender for the Tiroler Festspiele in Austria. Having debuted Alberich in her Rheingold to great acclaim, Colclough will complete the Cycle in 2024.
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