Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues its 2025-26 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Saturday at 1 p.m., with a production of Mason Bates’s contemporary opera The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. A scene is pictured above.

Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition (HD) opera transmissions to theaters around the world, continues its 2025-26 season at the 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center on Saturday at 1 p.m., with a production of Mason Bates’s contemporary opera The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. SUNY Fredonia Assistant Professor of Guitar Dr. Nathan Huvard played as a member of the Met Orchestra for this production. He will lead a brief pre-opera talk and Q&A in the theatre beginning at 12:30 p.m.

Added due to popular demand, the Met-premiere production of Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was recorded live earlier this season.

The exhilarating operatic adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows two Jewish cousins who create a comic-book superhero, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the dynamic new production by Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher.

This production runs approximately three hours, seven minutes.

Huvard is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and music professor based in New York City who recently joined the SUNY Fredonia faculty.  In addition to regularly performing with the Metropolitan Opera (Ainadamar 20240, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 2025, Don Giovanni 2025), Huvard’s musical theater career has included holding chairs on Broadway (Camelot 2023) and on tour (CHICAGO, 2022), as well as subbing off-Broadway (TEETH 2024).

As a chamber and orchestral musician, he has performed with the Pittsburgh Opera, Mannes Opera, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Bridgeport Symphony, and Waterbury Symphony.​

Live at the Met is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met in New York into movie theaters and event spaces worldwide. When the series launched in 2006, the Met was the first arts company to experiment with alternative cinema content. Since then, the program has expanded, and today reaches more than 2,000 venues in 73 countries across six continents.

Individual tickets to each of the operas in the Live at the Met season are $20, ($18 Opera House members, $10 students). Tickets may be purchased in person at the Opera House Box Office or by phone at 716-679-1891, Tuesday-Friday, 12-4:30 p.m. Tickets may be purchased online anytime at www.fredopera.org.

Part of Arts in the Afternoon, which is sponsored by Dr. James M. & Marcia Merrins, Live at the Met is underwritten with support from Daniel S. Kaufman and Timothy W. Beaver.

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House Performing Arts Center is a member-supported not-for-profit performing arts center with a mission to “present the performing arts for the benefit of our community and region … providing access to artistic diversity … and high quality programming at an affordable price.” It is located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.fredopera.org.