Grounded
by Jeanine Tesori / Libretto by George Brant
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 1 p.m.
$30 • $25 for Four Arts members • $15 for students with valid ID
Previously recorded in 2024 • 2 hours, 44 minutes with one intermission
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 1 p.m.
$30 • $25 for Four Arts members • $15 for students with valid ID
Previously recorded in 2024 • 2 hours, 44 minutes with one intermission
Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera wrestles 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 service persons. Canadian mezzosoprano 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.