12A
2hrs 45mins

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 servicepeople.


Screening as part of The Metropolitan Opera 2024-2025 cinema season.

Unfortunately no Audio Description track is available for this feature.
Michael Mayer
12A
Concert Film/Event Cinema
English

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 Né zet-Sé guin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera.


Screening from a recording of its live broadcast on October 19th.

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Mon 21 Oct