Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, starring Canadian mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo.

SYNOPSIS

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.

Saturday, October 19, 2024 – 12 p.m.

Sunday, October 20, 2024 – 1 p.m.

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$24 General Admission
$22 Seniors
$17 Members, Students, Military
$5   UNL, Nebraska Wesleyan, Union College, and SCC Students

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Estimated Run Time

2 hours, 44 minutes (with one intermisison)