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.

Two hours, and 42 minutes (1 intermission)

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