The Metropolitan Opera: Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded

Name: The Metropolitan Opera: Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded
Duration: 2 h 45 min
Cast: Emily D’Angelo, Ben Bliss

Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues created by 21st-century warmaking: the ethical conflicts created by the use of modern military technology and the psychological and emotional toll supposedly safe remote technology takes on our servicepersons. Canadian mezzo- soprano Emily D’Angelo stars as the hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. American tenor Ben Bliss costars as the Wyoming rancher Eric in a production by Michael Mayer that brings this story to life in a high-tech staging which presents a variety of perspectives on the action. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19.PT2H45M

Emily D’Angelo

Ben Bliss

The Metropolitan Opera: Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded"The Metropolitan Opera: Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded"

The Metropolitan Opera: Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded

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