MET 2024/25 - Jeanine Tesori: Grounded

Director: Michael Mayer

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Set Designer: Mimi Lien
Costume Designer: Tom Broecker

Cast: Emily D’Angelo (Jess), Kirsten MacKinnon (Jess), Ben Bliss (Eric), Kyle Miller (Sensor)

Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, wrestles with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of 21st-century warfare. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, portrays Jess, a 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. 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 Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin oversees the Met premiere of Tesori’s kaleidoscopic score and a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who becomes Jess’s husband. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging, using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone’s predatory view from high above.

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Ticket information

Tickets are available at the Cassa of the Urania National Filmtheater and in the Ticket Sale System of Interticket.

Ticket price: 5900 HUF
Discounted tickets are available at the price of 4900 for those purchasing tickets for at least 8 different performances for the season at the same time.

Please note that after the start of the screening, you can only take a seat on the floor side.

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