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Met Opera Encore: Grounded (Tesori)

Name: Met Opera Encore: <i>Grounded </i> (Tesori)
Start: 2024-11-02T12:55:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-02T15:25:00-04:00
Location: Maine Film Center

November 2, 12:55 PM – 3:25 PM

$16 – $19

Date: November 2 at 12:55pm

Runtime: 2 hours 30 minutes

MPA Rating: Not Rated

Organization: Maine Film Center

Venue: Maine Film Center, 93 Main Street, Waterville, Maine

This film is eligible for the Youth Arts Access Fund.

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 mezzosoprano 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.

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Details

Date:: November 2
Time:: 12:55 PM – 3:25 PM
Cost:: $16 – $19

Organizer

: Maine Film Center

Venue

: Maine Film Center
: 93 Main St.
Waterville, ME + Google Map
Phone: 873-7000
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