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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

By Mason Bates and Gene Scheer

FREEDOM FIGHTERS

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, this new opera is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera and will have its world premiere on the MAC stage.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Chabon, Bates and Scheer’s opera portrays two cousins in 1940s New York City—a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer Brooklynite—who team up to create The Escapist, a comic book superhero who takes America by storm as he battles the Nazis and frees the oppressed.

As the opera unfolds, themes of identity, escape, and freedom are examined while three disparate musical worlds come crashing together.

Bates’ first opera, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, enjoyed its collegiate premiere at the Jacobs School of Music in 2018 as a coproduction with the Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, and San Francisco Opera.

2024 Performances

Nov. 15, 16, 21, 22
Musical Arts Center
7:30 PM

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Artistic staff

Conductor: Michael Christie
2019 Grammy winner for The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, which he also conducted at Jacobs in 2018

Director: Bartlett Sher
Tony Award winner dubbed “one of the most original and exciting directors … in the international world of opera” by The 

Set Designer: 59 Productions
An award-winning design and production studio based in London and New York

Costume Designer: Jennifer Moeller
Tony Award-nominated designer with an extensive history on Broadway
and beyond

Opera & Fall/Spring Ballet Tickets

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

*Any child or full-time student with valid ID.

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101 North Eagleson Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
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Box office hours are subject to change during events and holidays.

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