MET: Live in HD Grounded (Jeanine Tesori)

Tony Award winning composer Jeanine Tesoris powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera wrestling with often overlooked issues created by 21st century war making 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 DAngelo 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 Tesoris kaleidoscopic opera, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19. Pre-talk at 12:30PM.