Jeanine Tesori becomes first woman composer to open Met Opera season with reworked `Grounded’
NEW YORK– Jeanine Tesori watched the world premiere run of her “Grounded” with director Michael Mayer last fall at the Kennedy Center and noticed audience fidgeting. “It didn’t need a transplant of a liver, but what it needed was maybe just a different approach,” Mayer recalled. “Some rhinoplasty,” Tesori interjected. “A tracheotomy at one point.”…