Saturday, January 24, 2026 | 1 PM | General Admission
Added due to popular demand, the Met-premiere production of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay arrives in cinemas, recorded live earlier this season.
The exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two Jewish cousins who create a comic-book superhero, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the dynamic new production by Tony Award–winning director Bartlett Sher.
This production runs approximately three hours, seven minutes.
The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award–winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met in New York into movie theaters and event spaces worldwide. The series has made the Met the world’s leading provider of alternative cinema content and the only arts institution with an ongoing global series of this scale. When the series launched in 2006, the Met was the first arts company to experiment this way. Since then, the program has expanded, with more than 32 million tickets sold to date, and has been seen in virtually every important world capital from Paris to Cairo, as well as in towns and villages spread across six continents.
SUNY Fredonia Assistant Professor of Guitar Dr. Nathan Huvard played as a member of the Met Orchestra for this production. He will lead a brief pre-opera talk and Q&A in the theatre beginning at 12:30pm.
Huvard is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and music professor based in New York City who recently joined the SUNY Fredonia faculty. In addition to regularly performing with the Metropolitan Opera (Ainadamar 2024), The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 2025, Don Giovanni 2025), Nate’s musical theater career has included holding chairs on Broadway (Camelot 2023) and on tour (CHICAGO, 2022), as well as subbing off-Broadway (TEETH 2024).
As a chamber and orchestral musician, he has performed with the Pittsburgh Opera, Mannes Opera, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Bridgeport Symphony, and Waterbury Symphony.
Part of Arts in the Afternoon, which is sponsored by Dr. James M. & Marcia Merrins, Live at the Met is underwritten with support from Daniel S. Kaufman and Timothy W. Beaver
