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Met Opera adapts Michael Chabon’s Jewish novel ‘Kavalier & Clay’ for the stage

JL;DR SUMMARY The Metropolitan Opera is set to adapt Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," into an opera for its 2025-26 season. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CultureHolocaustJewish IdentityNazismComic BooksMichael ChabonMet OperaKavalier & ClayOpera AdaptationResistance Songs

Places mentioned

New York City, New York, United States
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, is part comic-book origin story, part immigrant saga and part love letter to New York City at its most scrappy and dazzling."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"Joe Kavalier, a Houdini-obsessed escape artist who flees Nazi-occupied Prague, and his quick-witted Brooklyn cousin, Sammy Clay."
San Francisco, California, United States
"Bates, who is not Jewish, attended services at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco, where he lives, to learn more about Jewish culture and tradition."
Brooklyn, New York, United States
"Joe Kavalier, a Houdini-obsessed escape artist who flees Nazi-occupied Prague, and his quick-witted Brooklyn cousin, Sammy Clay."
Michigan, United States
"managing director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at the University of Michigan."

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