George Brant is an American playwright and librettist whose award-winning plays and operas have been seen at leading theaters around the world. His celebrated play Grounded has been performed in dozens of countries, including at The Public Theater in New York, and was adapted into an opera with composer Jeanine Tesori that was recently performed to great acclaim at the Metropolitan Opera. Brant has been commissioned by the Met to write The Mothers of Kherson, a new opera about Russia’s abduction and deportation of thousands of Ukrainian children, which will premiere in Warsaw next Fall in advance of its New York premiere at the Met.
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