The Metropolitan Opera's season opened with the premiere of Grounded, an opera about a fighter pilot's life-changing journey from air combat to domesticity and back.
Justin Davidson says, "the composer, Jeanine Tesori, comes out of the theater world...the Met's been trying to leverage that cross-disciplinary wealth of talent for years."
Sara Holdren finds the first act compelling, noting it establishes a strong image of Jess, revealing her power as a pilot and her chaotic adjustment to life on the ground.
Davidson describes the opera's opening as "instantly airborne" and highlights the effective use of sounds like an engine revving to set the stage for dynamic storytelling.
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