The Metropolitan Opera: Grounded

Works & Process Presents The Metropolitan Opera: Grounded by Jeanine Tesori, libretto by George Brant

See highlights from two-time Tony Award-winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s newest opera, Grounded, with a libretto by George Brant, author of the original play. Wrestling with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of twenty-first-century warfare, this Met commission focuses on Jess, a hotshot 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. As she struggles to adjust to this new way of doing battle, she fights to maintain her sanity, and her soul, as she is called to rain down death by remote control. Met General Manager Peter Gelb moderates a discussion with Met’s Music Director and Grounded Conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séquin, Director Michael Mayer, Tesori, and Brant. Emily D’Angelo, Ben Bliss, and Kirsten MacKinnon perform selections from the opera.

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