A Modern Jewish Opera—The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
For an early Tu b’Av celebration, come to Har Zion on Sunday afternoon, July 26, for a screening of the PBS Passport recording of the Metropolitan Opera production of the opera The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.
This contemporary opera, composed by Mason Bates, with libretto by Gene Scheer, is based on Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Its story is set in the 1940s, in New York City, in Nazi-occupied Prague, and in the “technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy.” Two Jewish cartoonists—Joe Kavalier, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague, and his Brooklyn-born cousin Sam Clay—invent The Escapist, an anti-fascist superhero who fights the Nazis, with an including love story,
Enjoy Prosecco (and non-alcoholic alternatives) and snacks during the performance. In person only.
(Image from the Met’s website.)