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LA Opera scraps planned world premiere of Mason Bates' 'Kavalier and Clay' adaptation over finances
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FILE - Mason Bates arrives at the 59th annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Opera scrapped plans for the world premiere of Bates' “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this fall because of finances, and the work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. - photo by Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File
NEW YORK (AP) — The Los Angeles Opera has scrapped plans for the world premiere of Mason Bates' “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” this fall because of finances. The work will instead open with a student cast at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Bates' composition, based on Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is a co-commission with the Metropolitan Opera and was to have originated at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Oct. 26.