"The Metropolitan Opera's 2025-2026 season opened last night with Mason Bates' The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. 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. The Met's opening week also includes revivals of Mozart's Don Giovanni and Puccini's Turandot. Don Giovanni stars bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the infamous Don Juan whose rakish ways finally catch up to him, while soprano Angela Meade stars in Turandot as the titular princess, opposite tenor Michael Fabiano as the mysterious prince who risks his head to win her hand."
"New York City Ballet presents Eclectic NYCB I, a collection of works by four choreographers in contrasting styles, running September 25-October 5. The program includes Gianna Reisen's Signs, Peter Martins' Zakouski, Ulysses Dove's Red Angels, and Justin Peck's Heatscape. Meanwhile, performances continue of the two all-Balanchine programs which opened the company's season last week. The first such program includes Donizetti Variations, set to music from Donizetti's final completed opera Dom Sébastian; Ballade, set to music by Gabriel Fauré;"
The Metropolitan Opera opened its 2025-2026 season with Mason Bates' The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The opera follows Josef Kavalier and Samuel Klayman, two Jewish cousins who enter the 1930s comic book industry, creating an anti-fascist superhero called The Escapist inspired by Josef's escape from Nazi-occupied Prague. Andrzej Filończyk and Miles Mykkanen star as Kavalier and Clay. The Met's opening week also features revivals of Mozart's Don Giovanni starring Ryan Speedo Green and Puccini's Turandot starring Angela Meade opposite Michael Fabiano. New York City Ballet presents Eclectic NYCB I (September 25–October 5) alongside continuing all-Balanchine programs.
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