The Metropolitan Opera will open its 2024-25 season with Jeanine Tesori’s “Grounded.”

The Met revealed the news in an article regarding the retirement of Sonja Frisell’s “Aida” as the new “Aida” production will premiere during the same 2024-25 season.

Tesori’s opera will first make its world premiere at the Washington National Opera during the 2023-24 season and will star Emily D’Angelo; “Grounded” is based on the play by George Brant. More details will be announced in the coming months.

As for “Aida” Michael Mayer will direct the new production and Peter Gelb noted, “The audience’s natural concern might be after seeing the spectacle of this ‘Aida’ what’s in store for them in the next ‘Aida.‘ Christine Jones and Michael Grimmer are creating an underground world for ‘Aida’ of catacombs and pyramids and tombs, with projection. The set will be animated in a way that will be extremely dramatic and visually appealing. It’s ‘Aida’ underground as opposed to above ground.”