"Grounded"

Met Live in HD production's run time is 2 hours, 44 minutes. Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded wrestles with the 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.