Met Opera 2024 - 2025: Grounded (Jeanine Tesori / Libretto by George Brant)

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 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.Met Opera 2024 - 2025: Grounded (Jeanine Tesori / Libretto by George Brant) showing at: December 5, 10:00 am

Location: Matakana Cinemas2 Matakana Valley Road, Auckland, Matakana, 09854

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Ben Bliss

Emily D’Angelo

Met Opera 2024 - 2025: Grounded (Jeanine Tesori / Libretto by George Brant)"