Grounded

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.

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) 4

Ticket: Cin' Members – 140 NIS / Non-Members: – 170 NIS