Review: ‘Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’ at the Met NYT | Top Stories By: Joshua Barone 23 September 2025 at 03:14 The Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a superficial adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” © Sara Krulwich/The New York Times“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” with a score by Mason Bates and a libretto by Gene Scheer, tells a story about Americanness, love and pop culture during World War II.