Librettist: George Brant | Production: Michael Mayer | Set Designer: Mimi Lien | Costume Designer: Tom Broecker | Lighting Designer: Kevin Adams | Co–Projection Designers: Jason H. Thompson and Kaitlyn Pietras | Sound Designer: Palmer Hefferan | Choreographer: David Neumann | Dramaturg: Paul Cremo
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Emily D’Angelo (Jess), Ben Bliss (Eric)
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.
Approx. runtime: 2:44 [1 Intermission]
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