The Metropolitan Opera premiere production of Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, recorded live earlier this season, will be screened as a special encore presentation, Thursday, Feb. 26, at 1 p.m., at the Strand Theatre.  

According to the Strand, in a news release, in this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism.

"Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy," said the Strand. "Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by 59 Studio."

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere-production, with baritone Andrzej Filończyk as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen. 

This opera is sung in English.

Estimated running time is 3 hours, including one intermission.

More information can be found on the Strand Theatre website at www.RocklandStrand.com.

This season’s series at the Strand is generously supported by Edward Jones financial advisors.                                                               

Tickets are available online at www.RocklandStrand.com; by calling the box office at (207) 594-0070; or at the walk-up box office one hour prior to showtime. Tickets are $32/Adults, $27/Strand Members, and $15/Students.

The Strand Theatre is located at 345 Main Street, Rockland.