According to the just unveiled calendar of events, the season’s opening production of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Mason Bates features Polish baritone Andrzej Filończyk making his Met debut as the artist Joe Kavalier.
Bates’ opera is based on Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same title. Filończyk is also to sing the part of Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
Bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny will appear as Kurwenal in Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and as Mandryka in Richard Strauss’ Arabella.
Tenor Piotr Beczała, who has been a regular quest at the Met since 2006, is billed as the poet Andrea Chénier in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier, while soprano Aleksandra Kurzak is to make another Met appearance as Mimi in Puccini’s La Bohème.
Meanwhile, tenor Piotr Buszewski is cast as Alfredo Germont in Verdi’s La Traviata, baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo Forth in Bellini’s I Puritani and bass Adam Pałka as Commendatore in Mozart’s Don Giovanni.
Polish singers will also appear in four of the eight Met performances transmitted across the globe in the Live in HD series: Strauss’s Arabella (November 22, 2025), Giordano’s Andrea Chénier (December 13, 2025), Bellini’s I Puritani (January 10, 2026), and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (March 21, 2026)
(mk)