A Celebration of the Arts
Friday, November 15, 2024, from 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
~ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay ~
Doors Open at 7:00 p.m.
Performance at 7:30 p.m.
This year’s festivities will take place in an elegant tent, located on the west side of Eagleson Ave, between Auer Hall (200 South Eagleson Avenue) and the Musical Arts Center (101 South Eagleson Avenue).
Join the IU Jacobs School of Music and David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean, Abra Bush, for this year’s MAC Gala: A Celebration of the Arts!
The Gala will include the fabulous dining experience you have come to expect, while highlighting the Jacobs School of Music’s meaningful, artistic partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
This year’s event precedes opening night and the world-premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Commissioned by the Met and co-produced with Indiana University, this collaboration is based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel by Michael Chabon. With a ticket to the Gala, you will also receive admission to Friday evening’s stunning performance by composer Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer.
The MAC Gala will both benefit and honor The Society of the Friends of Music as they celebrate 60 incredible years of supporting scholarships for Jacobs School students.
Find your formal invitation and event registration details in your inbox the first week of September.
Please direct any questions to Maggie Frey at mrolfes@iu.edu
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
This new opera is a coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera and will have its world premiere on the MAC stage.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Chabon, Bates and Scheer’s opera portrays two cousins in 1940s New York City—a refugee from wartime Prague and a closeted queer Brooklynite—who team up to create The Escapist, a comic book superhero who takes America by storm as he battles the Nazis and frees the oppressed.
As the opera unfolds, themes of identity, escape, and freedom are examined while three disparate musical worlds come crashing together.