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Streaming Live on PBS Until: 9/30/2026
Live Recording Out August 21 | Stream on PBS through September 30
Mason Bates’ acclaimed opera The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 season, is coming to streaming platforms. Recorded live at the Met, the full album will be released August 21, with the single “Interlude: The Escapist” arriving August 14.
Based on Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the opera follows two Jewish cousins who invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series on the eve of World War II. Bates’ score blends orchestral writing with electronics and a wide range of musical styles to bring the intersecting worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto to life.
Listen to “Interlude: The Escapist” August 14
Listen to the full live recording August 21
The Metropolitan Opera production is also available to stream on PBS’s Great Performances at the Met through September 30, 2026.
Watch on PBS, link below!
About Mason Bates
The magical intersection between music and technology is a central tenet of Mason Bates’ work, from his Grammy-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs to his work as a composer, DJ and curator.
This season the Metropolitan Opera presents The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which is being given an unprecedented mid-season revival and cinema broadcast due to strong demand.
Bates also creates groundbreaking projects that reach beyond the concert hall, such as the animated film Philharmonia Fantastique and its education platform Sprite’s World, which inspires hundreds of thousands of young people about the wonders of music.
As a DJ, he produces thrilling shows merging electronica, classical music, and immersive production in in spectacular venues through his outreach organization Mercury Soul.
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