Grounded (The Met: Live in HD)

Name: Grounded (The Met: Live in HD)
Start: 2024-10-19T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-19T15:00:00-05:00
Location: 313 N 13th St, Lincoln, NE, United States, Nebraska 68508

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 12:00 pm to 03:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

313 N 13th St, Lincoln, NE, United States, Nebraska 68508 | Lincoln, NE

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.