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flag The Met opens its 2025–2026 season with a new opera based on Michael Chabon’s novel, starring tenor Miles Mykkanen in his first leading role.

flag The Metropolitan Opera opened its 2025–2026 season with a new production of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," based on Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. flag Tenor Miles Mykkanen stars as Sammy Clay, a Jewish teenager in 1940s Brooklyn who co-creates a superhero comic with his cousin, Joe Kavalier. flag The opera, with a libretto by Gene Scheer and music by Mason Bates, marks Mykkanen’s first leading role at the Met after training at Juilliard and performing in smaller roles, including in Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence.” Directed by Bartlett Sher and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the production highlights the Met’s commitment to contemporary works drawn from American literary history.

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