Kavalier, Clay, and Shabbat

“I really think that the reason why this has great resonance is because Michael’s book has such it is so beautifully written and so as such, incredibly passionately, for me, describes this, the idea of what it is to deal with grief and how to how to struggle, struggle with that and hopefully to overcome it. You know, that is, it’s there is so much of the of the book. It’s a sprawling novel. And of course, we had to cut things and conflate things and change things to make it work as an opera. But that aspect of Michael’s book, I think, is well represented in the in the opera. You know, how do you deal with the grief, the grief of Joe losing his family? And how does Tracy, I’m sorry, Sam, deal with the feeling of being closeted in the 1940s because of his sexuality and and, and how do you deal with those, that kind of friction that’s in one’s life, so beyond the the the sort of surface parallels, I think, what’s the reason why I think the book is so beautiful, and why, hopefully the opera will work and touch you, is because it touches something that’s in all of our hearts and all of our experiences. Because, you know, no one gets out of this alive, you know, this journey, and we’re all dealing with loss, and it’s part of the it’s part of the deal and and, of course, some people deal with it much too soon, because of good, because of the way the world throws things at them. So how you deal with it is something that is at the core of this story.”
~Gene Scheer 

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