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Philharmonia Fantastique - The Making of the Orchestra: Birth of Sprite by Mason Bates

Philharmonia Fantastique - The Making of the Orchestra: Birth of Sprite by Mason Bates

New opera just hits different. 🔥 After its widely acclaimed run last fall, Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay returns this month for a limited run of just four performances, and our extraordinary cast couldn’t be more thrilled. This celebrated new opera is on stage February 17–21. Videography by Muriel Steinke / Met Opera #opera #classicalmusic #theater #NYC #livemusic

New opera just hits different. 🔥 After its widely acclaimed run last fall, Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay returns this month for a limited run of just four performances, and our extraordinary cast couldn’t be more thrilled. This celebrated new opera is on stage February 17–21. Videography by Muriel Steinke / Met Opera #opera #classicalmusic #theater #NYC #livemusic

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Video: Mason Bates’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY In Rehearsal

Video: Mason Bates’s THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY In Rehearsal

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Bringing Electronic Music to the Historic Met Opera | Great Performances

Bringing Electronic Music to the Historic Met Opera | Great Performances

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Composer Mason Bates and Tomer Zvulun discuss taking on the mythology of Steve Jobs, creating new sonic worlds for opera and Bates’ influences in the latest episode of The Atlanta Opera’s The Business of Opera. Listen to the full episode here -atlantaopera.org/podcast #atlstevejobs #businessofopera #meetopera | The Atlanta Opera

Composer Mason Bates and Tomer Zvulun discuss taking on the mythology of Steve Jobs, creating new sonic worlds for opera and Bates’ influences in the latest episode of The Atlanta Opera’s The Business of Opera. Listen to the full episode here -atlantaopera.org/podcast #atlstevejobs #businessofopera #meetopera | The Atlanta Opera

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Got a chance to meet with Mason Bates and ask him a few questions before he had to go perform in the opera he composed!!! There are only 2 more performances left of Mason’s hit opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. Go to sfopera.com to purchase tickets!! | San Francisco Opera

Got a chance to meet with Mason Bates and ask him a few questions before he had to go perform in the opera he composed!!! There are only 2 more performances left of Mason’s hit opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. Go to sfopera.com to purchase tickets!! | San Francisco Opera

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A magical moment of stillness 🦋 Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is coming back for a limited run of just four performances, February 17–21. Michael Christie and Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conduct. In this clip, Sun-Ly Pierce and Andrzej Filończyk, as Rosa Saks and Joe Kavalier, sing an excerpt from Act II, alongside Bonnie Wright as Luna Moth. 🎟️Buy your tickets at the box office, on the Met Opera app, or on our website: metopera.

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The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs - Mason Bates

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“I thought he was just dreaming, but it came true!”✨ Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is back by popular demand! Join us for a limited run of just four performances, February 17–21. Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. 🎟️Buy your tickets at the box office, on the Met Opera app, or on our website: metopera.app.link/KavClay 📹The opera will also be seen in select cin

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I’m on my third day of workshopping The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay for @MetOpera @Lincoln Center. For two years, I’ve been working on adapting Michael Chabon’s book and it’s pretty thrilling to finally get to hear it sung, figure out what’s working, what needs to be adjusted, etc. Michael Chabon’s novel is an inspiring story about Jewish immigrants who flee WWII and enter the burgeoning comic book industry to make money to send back to their family — and it’s set right here in 1940’

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We took composer Mason Bates to the Philadelphia Zoo to match the mythological creatures in his "Anthology of Fantastic Zoology" with their nearest earth-based relatives. Come hear Mason's piece performed tonight through Saturday in Verizon Hall and Tuesday at Carnegie Hall! bit.ly/PO-DiDonato | The Philadelphia Orchestra

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Mason Bates’ Met-bound opera ‘Kavalier & Clay’ based on Michael Chabon novel premieres in Indiana

Former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates explains the rare and special relationship that he has had with pianist Daniil Trifonov through five years of international performances of his Piano Concerto. “I’m so thrilled to be going back this month and to hear him do it with the Chicago Symphony,” Bates says. Learn more about the June 20-23 performances at cso.org/ps/23981 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Mason Bates’ Met-bound opera ‘Kavalier & Clay’ based on Michael Chabon novel premieres in Indiana

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Opera like you’ve never heard before🎹 Mason Bates’s score for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay blends electronic and orchestral sounds. We caught up with the trailblazing composer to find out how he balances the two and what inspires his work. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay opens our 2025–26 season on Sunday, September 21. Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. 🎟️Buy your tickets on the Met Opera app or on our website: bit.ly/4loHPBc Videography by Muriel Steinke

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Earlier this month, former Mead Composer-in-Residence Mason Bates returned to Symphony Center to guide groups of musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and conductor Edwin Outwater through the recording of the music for Philharmonia Fantastique. The multimedia work, which features music by Bates, is an extraordinary journey through the inner workings of a symphony orchestra, and is set to premiere in the 2021/22 season. | Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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Grammy-award winning composer and SFCM professor Mason Bates shares the number one thing he says to all his students. 'Themify the theme.' "It's a bit of a whimsical concept," Bates said, "But it basically means: It looks like there is supposed to be a theme here, can we make that a theme? With a clear beginning, middle and end?" | San Francisco Conservatory of Music

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An acclaimed new opera, back by popular demand!💥 We’re thrilled to announce that Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay will be returning for four performances only from February 17–21. The production has also been added to the Live in HD cinema season, with a special presentation of a previously recorded performance in select cinemas beginning January 24. Tickets are on sale now in the United States and beginning October 18 in Canada. Learn more: met

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Don't miss Mason Bates' Grammy-winning opera exploring the life, death, and obsession of an innovator, May 2–10. Unlock tickets from $19 with code MASON and experience the operatic journey! 📱 | Washington National Opera

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💥 Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is coming to a theatre near you! Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel by Michael Chabon, the opera follows two cousins as they invent an anti-fascist superhero, hoping to recruit America into the fight against intolerance. Experience The Metropolitan Opera's hit production in theatres January 24 and 28 only. | Fathom Entertainment

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A message of hope from our leading lady 🕊️ Sun-Ly Pierce returns to the Met stage this winter to touch audiences’ hearts as Rosa Saks in Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This acclaimed production is back on stage February 17–21 for a limited run of performances. Michael Christie and Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conduct. Check out this clip from an early stage rehearsal of Pierce singing Rosa Saks’s Act I aria. 🎟️ Buy your tickets at

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A little bit of hope from our season opener. ♥️ Here’s a look inside an early stage rehearsal of Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay! Check out this excerpt from Rosa Saks and Joe Kavalier’s Act I duet, sung by Sun-Ly Pierce and Andrzej Filończyk. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay opens our 2025–26 season on September 21. Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. 🎟️Buy your tickets on the Met Opera app or on our website: bit.ly/4loH

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“You have to go!” 👏 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is the most talked about opera of the year, and Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s opera will be back at the Met for just four performances this winter. Don’t miss it when it returns February 17–21. Michael Christie and Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin conduct. 🎟️ Buy your tickets on the Met Opera app or on our website: metopera.app.link/KavClay Videography by Pete Scalzitti / Met Opera | The Metropolitan Opera

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A stellar season begins. 🎊 Opening Night is always a major event, and the highly anticipated Met premiere of Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay didn’t disappoint. With 18 incredible productions of much-loved classics, visionary new stagings, and exciting new works, the 2025–26 season has something for everyone. What are you looking forward to? 🎟️ Buy your tickets on the Met Opera app or on our website: metopera.org Videography by Pete Scalzitti,

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Superhero music🤝 MET Orchestra Musicians Our 2025–26 season opens September 21 with the Met premiere of Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. In the meantime, check out this look inside the rehearsal room as Met Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin leads the Met Orchestra through a rehearsal of Bates’s exhilarating score for this powerful new work. 🎟️ Buy your tickets on the Met Opera app or on our website: bit.ly/4loHPBc Videography by Pete Scalzit

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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay — Final Performance Met Opera Feb 2026

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