If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to spend less time on devices and get more “cultured,” the Metropolitan Opera is here to help—even if you don’t find yourself in New York City. On Saturday, ...

THE ESCAPIST, as his name suggests, is skilled at getting himself in and out of tricky situations. With his muscles rippling in a blue Spandex suit—and his motif, a key, gleaming on his chest—he ...

Have you heard of The Escapist? He is an anti-fascist superhero created by two Jewish cousins, Sam Clay from Brooklyn and artist Joe Kavalier, who escaped to New York from Nazi-occupied Prague just ...

Miles Mykkanen grew up wanting to sing and dance on Broadway, but he was turned down by the musical theater programs he applied to for college. So he had to "settle" for studying opera at the ...

It begins in the old world. A fog rolls in. Statues of saints on the bridge over the Moldau have their backs to us. Facing front is a young man in a straitjacket, planning his escape. Heralding his ...

Like many contemporary operas, “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Mason Bates, a commissioned work that opened the Metropolitan Opera season on Sunday evening, walks the line between ...

3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera The forces behind the Met’s latest try at bringing a different (sic: younger) audience to the house, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY, ...

3 Review: LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Royal Ballet And Opera Rehearsals are underway for the Met premiere of Mason Bates and Gene Scheer’s adaptation of Michael Chabon’s acclaimed novel. Get a first look at ...

The tale of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon tells us in his exuberant, cornucopian 2000 novel, “began in 1939, toward the end of October, on the night that Sammy’s mother burst into his bedroom, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Theis image released by The Metropolitan Opera shows Andrzej Filończyk, left, and Miles Mykkanen during a rehearsal for "The ...