The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

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2023
3h 15m
6.5(2 votes)
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Drama

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American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The outstanding cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and legendary mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother.

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Latonia Moore

Sister Rose

Latonia Moore
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Joyce DiDonato

Sister Helen Prejean

Joyce DiDonato
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Ryan McKinny

Joseph de Rocher

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Susan Graham

Mrs. Patrick de Rocher

Susan Graham

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