Kyle Miller

The Met: Live in HD to Continue with Jeanine Tesori's GROUNDED

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season will continue with two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist George Brant’s new opera, Grounded. Learn more about the opera and see how to watch!

Video: Extended Look at Jeanine Tesori's GROUNDED at The Met

Watch more scenes from The Met Opera's production of Composer Jeanine Tesori and Director Michael Mayer's production of Grounded, based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play.

Review: Girl Meets Drone in Tesori-Brant GROUNDED for Met Opening Night

A match made in heaven? Girl meets boy. Girl meets baby. Girl meets drone. Girl meets court-martial.

The Metropolitan Opera to Open 2024â€"25 Season With Jeanine Tesori's GROUNDED

The Metropolitan Opera's 2024–25 season opens with the company premiere of GROUNDED. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis Announces Their 50th Anniversary Festival Season

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) announced repertory and celebrations for a landmark 50th season in 2025, celebrating five decades of artistic innovation and discovery since the company’s founding in 1976. The 2025 Festival Season opens on May 24, 2025, with Johann Strauss II’s effervescent Die Fledermaus, which has not been seen at Opera Theatre since 1989. The season continues with the company’s 44th world premiere, This House, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage and her daughter Ruby Aiyo Gerber. Next, Opera Theatre will present an all-new staging of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale — the very first opera that the company ever performed. Britten’s enchanting adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream rounds out the season. In addition to four mainstage productions, Opera Theatre will continue to present the annual young artist showcase, Center Stage. This concert shines a spotlight on the members of OTSL’s highly selective Young Artist Programs, accompanied onstage by members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, which has served as OTSL’s Festival Season orchestra since 1978.

12th Annual CompCord Festival COMPCORD @ 40 to Begin Next Month

Composers Concordance, founded in 1984, is celebrating its 40th season with a four-concert festival all about reaching this amazing milestone.

New MADAME BUTTERFLY Closes Opera Philadelphia Season

Experience a fresh take on the classic opera, MADAME BUTTERFLY, as it marks the end of the Opera Philadelphia season from April 26 to May 5.

MADAME BUTTERFLY Closes Opera Philadelphia's Season Next Month

Opera Philadelphia's 2023-2024 Season will close this spring with a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly that illuminates and ultimately transcends harmful stereotypes, empowering the protagonist Cio Cio San with new choices for her future.

Review: GROUNDED at Kennedy Center

The beautiful blue skies that Jess, an F-16 fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, soars through from the mighty heights above soon become mottled with dismal greys ---as she plummets into mental despair and confusion after being Grounded. In the paradigm-changing opera which is a World Premiere by the Washington National Opera, Jess continues to work (after pregnancy, marriage, and having a daughter) as a professional who pilots drones remotely from a trailer park in Las Vegas.

Review Roundup: Jeanine Tesori's GROUNDED at the Washington National Opera

Washington National Opera opened its 2023–2024 season with the world premiere of Grounded. Composed by two-time Tony Award® winner Jeanine Tesori with a libretto adapted by George Brant from his eponymous play, and directed by Tony Award® winner Michael Mayer, Grounded is commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and co-produced with the Washington National Opera.

Tilted Axes: Memento Mori Announced At The NYC Village Halloween Parade

TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars NYC Village comes to Halloween Parade.

Tilted Axes to Open Fall Season with Balawan at Indonesian Consulate Street Festival

TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars will celebrate the beginning of autumn with music & movement as part of the NYC Indonesian Street Festival in a performance of their latest spectacle EQUINOX. Get all of the performance information here!

Washington National Opera to Present GROUNDED World Premiere by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant

Experience the world premiere of GROUNDED, an exciting new production by Jeanine Tesori and George Brant, at the Washington National Opera. Find out the dates, venue, and ticket information for this eagerly anticipated event. Don't miss your chance to witness this groundbreaking performance.

Composers Concordance to Present ELECTRIC CIRCUS: A Mel Powell Centennial Celebration with 8 Electric Guitars

Join Composers Concordance for 'Electric Circus', a celebration of the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Mel Powell. Experience the unique sounds of 8 electric guitars at St. Mark's Church. Don't miss this electrifying event as new compositions are premiered and the spirit of Mel Powell is honored.

The Sebastians Announce 2023â€"24 Season Featuring Works by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel And More

The vibrant and innovative early music group the Sebastians has announced their 2023-24 season, which features cherished masterpieces and seldom-heard treasures from the baroque and classical eras.

R.B. Schlather & Hudson Hall Announce RODELINDA, October 20-29

​​​​​​​Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House announces RODELINDA as the first in an ambitious multi-year series of operas by G.F. Handel with the daring, internationally acclaimed director (and Hudson resident) R.B. Schlather. Six performances take place October 20, 24, 26, 28 at 7pm and October 22 and 29 at 3pm.

New York Composers Circle to Present TRANSFIGURED SKYLINE At Manhattan's DiMenna Center For Classical Music

New York Composers Circle, celebrating its 20th Anniversary season, will present Transfigured Skyline, a concert of new music on Monday, May 22 at 7:00 PM in Benzaquin Hall of The DiMenna Center for Classical Music.

Programming Added to Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival

The Cleveland Orchestra announced updates to its inaugural Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival: The American Dream, which takes place this spring at Severance Music Center and with Cleveland partner organizations.

TENET Vocal Artists to Present Bach's Magnificat And Easter Oratorio at Church of St. Vincent Ferrer

Acclaimed early music ensemble TENET Vocal Artists, led by Artistic Director Jolle Greenleaf, next presents in its 2022-23 season lineup Bach's spectacular Magnificat and Easter Oratorio.

Review: Arkansas' Theatrical Flagship brings TOOTSIE to Robinson Center

What did our critic think of TOOTSIE at Robinson Center?