Jeanine Tesori becomes the first woman composer to open a season in the Metropolitan Opera’s 141-year history when a revised “Grounded” starring mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo is featured at Monday night’s gala.
Heat stretch in Houston continues before rain chances later this weekGet ready to travel this fall with these Insider DealsThis image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Emily D'Angelo as Jess, center, during a performance of Jeanine Tesori's"Grounded" in New York on Sept. 16, 2024. “It didn’t need a transplant of a liver, but what it needed was maybe just a different approach,” Mayer recalled.
On the day of the final Washington National Opera performance last Nov. 13, Tesori met in an upstairs rehearsal room with Mayer, dramaturg Paul Cremo, choreographer David Neumann and Mayer assistant Marcus Shields. The meeting started at 12:30 p.m. and stretched for 9 1/2 hours, resulting in a book filled with bullet points detailing needed changes. Tesori composed in a rented house on Long Island’s North Fork, taking a break for a January workshop and completing the revised score by April 1.
Ethel M. Smyth’s “Der Wald ” was the first opera by a woman composer at the Met in 1903 and, Gabriela Lena Frank’s “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” and Missy Mazzoli’s “Lincoln in the Bardo” . “I was interested in the kind of combination between image and space or between actual physical, tangible structure and virtual imagery and how to combine those,” Lien said, “colored with the overall context of drone warfare and surveillance and the kind of preponderance of imagery into our daily lives.”
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