In the year 2000, when cinema’s most recent Batman was George Clooney and the first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was eight years away, Michael Chabon published the novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.” The book was about two cousins in nineteen-forties New York City—one finding refuge after fleeing Nazi-occupied Prague, the other trying to make a name for himself as a writer. Together, they embark on a comic-book venture, centering their stories on an antifascist superhero called the Escapist. The narrative, vividly written and ripe with visual dynamism, is now adapted for opera: “The Amazing Adventures...
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