See highlights from two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s newest opera, Grounded, with a libretto by George Brant, author of the original play. Wrestling with the ethical quandaries and psychological toll of twenty-first-century warfare, this Met commission focuses on Jess, a hotshot 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, as she is called to rain down death by remote control. Met General Manager Peter Gelb moderates a discussion with Met’s Music Director and Grounded Conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Director Michael Mayer, Tesori, and Brant. Emily D’Angelo, Ben Bliss, and Kirsten MacKinnon perform selections from the opera.

Ticketing Information
Priority tickets for the fall 2024 performance series will go on sale online at 11 am on Tuesday, July 23, for $500+ Friends of Works & Process and all Guggenheim members at the Global level and above.

General ticketing will open online on Thursday, July 25, at 11 am.

For questions, Friends of Works & Process, please email friends@worksandprocess.org. Guggenheim members, please email membership@guggenheim.org. For general ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@guggenheim.org.

Tickets are available for purchase online only.

House seats may be available for $1,000+ Friends of Works & Process. To purchase house seats, email friends@worksandprocess.org.

House seats may be released to the public before performances.

Emily D’Angelo in Grounded by Jeanine Tesori, libretto by George Brant. Photo: Paola Kudacki, courtesy The Metropolitan Opera