In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s novel, set before the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch a comic-book series, hoping to recruit America against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals, with towering sets and projections by 59 Studio. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the premiere, and baritone Andrzej Filonczyk makes his Met debut as artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.