The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay review - the Met is back with a bang | NYGazet

The New York season kicked off with a timely new opera by Mason Bates about a Nazi refugee, adapted from Michael Chabon’s epic novel

The Metropolitan Opera wasn’t always a vanguard of artistic conservatism. In its early years the Met presented the North American premieres of Carmen, Tosca and Salome and later commissioned its own world premieres from Puccini. But in more recent ti... [2627 chars]