Nearly 10 years after it was first imagined as an opera, 'Grounded' is ready to take flight.With music by Jeanine Tesori and a libretto adapted by George Brant from his own play, 'Grounded' tells the story of an F-16 fighter pilot who becomes pregnant and leaves the...
With music by Jeanine Tesori and a libretto adapted by George Brant from his own play, “Grounded” tells the story of an F-16 fighter pilot who becomes pregnant and leaves the service. When she re-enlists she is assigned to a trailer in the Nevada desert, directing unmanned drone attacks on terrorists thousands of miles away. Gradually her personality fractures under the stress of the job until she can no longer separate her private from professional life.
“We had signed up Jeanine to our new works project and it wasn’t coming together, time was passing and I thought we’ve gotta find something for her,” Cremo said. But Cremo envisioned something more, given the size of the Met, with its vast stage and 3,800 seats. “The question was, can this one-woman show be turned into a full-fledged opera with multiple characters and a chorus and all the things an opera needs,” he said.
“They had these very productive Zoom sessions,” Cremo said, in which Jeanine would play the computer rendition of her score and they would discuss it scene by scene.” “Since the subject matter says so much about the power of technology in our lives, I wanted the set to feel like a machine surrounding her, enclosing her, without a human element,” Lien said.
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