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Met Opera Live in HD: Grounded
Date and Time
Saturday Oct 19, 2024
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Location
37 Main St, Rockport, MA 01966
Fees/Admission
Tickets: $30, $27
Contact Information
(978) 546-7391
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Description
Pre-opera talk by Andrew Shryock, 12 PM
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, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19.
Approx. runtime: 2:44 [1 Intermission]
