The Met: Live in HD | Grounded at The Hyde

The Hyde Collection Art Museum
161 Warren St., Glens Falls, NY  12801

12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

https://www.thesembrich.org/the-met-live-in-hd/2024/grounded

12:30 - 4:00 pm - Join us for The Met: Live in HD Join us at The Hyde Collection for live screenings from the Metropolitan Opera. The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of opera performances transmitted live from the stage of the Met into movie theaters worldwide. Before each broadcast, we're presenting exclusive 20-minute lectures featuring members of our staff, performing artists and operatic professionals from around world! Content Advisory: Grounded contains adult language and war sequences. 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 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 Ne´zet-Se´guin takes the podium to conduct Tesori’s kaleidoscopic opera, which will be transmitted live from the Met stage to cinemas on October 19.