Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction in 2001, Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay seemed destined for adaptation – but surely a film, or perhaps a prestige miniseries? Instead, his American epic about two Jewish cousins – one a closeted gay Brooklynite, the other a Czech refugee fleeing Nazi occupation – who create an anti-fascist superhero at the dawn of the real-life Golden Age of Comic Books found its way to the Metropolitan Opera stage, adapted by composer Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer. This special presentation is a rebroadcast from the Met’s premiere production in the fall starring baritone Andrzej Filończyk and tenor Miles Mykkanen as the titular Kavalier and Clay. – Kimberley Jones