The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Public Events for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Please join us for these sneak peaks into the transformation of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a world-premiere opera. All events are free!

Friday, Nov. 8, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Ford-Crawford Hall
CREATIVE TEAM ROUNDTABLE

  • Moderator Paul Cremo, Metropolitan Opera Dramaturg and Director of the Opera Commissioning Program
  • Bart Sher, director
  • Michael Christie, conductor
  • John Sellers, Metropolitan Opera assistant general manager for production.

Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024, 6–8 pm, Recital Hall
Refugees and Comics: A Symposium on Themes from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 

Sponsored by the Lou & Sybil Mervis Chair in Jewish Culture and the Arts

6:00-6:45 PM: From Europe to Bloomington

  • Judah Cohen, Welcome 
  • Nicolette van Den Bogerd,“Szymon Laks and Eastern European Musical Recollections of the Holocaust” 
  • John M. Cowan, “Kavalier and Kaufmann: Two Artistic Lives in Exile that Led to Bloomington.” 
  • David Hertz, Personal Recollections of Jacobs' Emigre Faculty  

6:45-7:00 PM: BREAK 

  • 7:00-8:00 PM: FEATURED SPEAKER: Miriam Mora, University of Michigan: “The Jewish Multiverse: Writing, Cartooning, and Engaging in the Fight Against Nazism” 

Friday, November 15, 2024, 12:30–1:30 pm, FORD HALL
Panel Discussion on Developing New Opera in Higher Education-Industry Partnerships

  • Moderator: Tom Kernan, Assistant Dean for Artistic Operations, Jacobs School of Music 
  • Abra Bush, David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean of the Jacobs School of Music 
  • Paul Cremo, Metropolitan Opera Dramaturg and Director of the Opera Commissioning Program
  • Gene Scheer, Librettist; Cast Member TBA.

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Seating Location Regular Price Student Price*
Center Orchestra $35 $10
Side/Rear Orchestra $30 $10
First Balcony $35 $10
Second Balcony $20 $10
Third Balcony $15 $10

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