The Met: Live in HD | Grounded

Name: The Met: Live in HD | Grounded
Start: 2024-10-19T11:00:00-06:00
Location: Lensic Performing Arts Center

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC-06:00

Location

Lensic Performing Arts Center | Santa Fe, NM

TICKETS: $22 / $25 / $28
Students $15
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 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 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, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19.
Sponsored by: The Edward Hastings and Gino Barcone Trust