The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
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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
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Joyce DiDonato
Sister Helen Prejean
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Ryan McKinny
Joseph de Rocher
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Susan Graham
Mrs. Patrick de Rocher
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Margaret
Ivo van Hove Director · Terrence McNally Writer Christopher Ash Production designer
United States release October 21, 2023 · Produced in United States
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The Metropolitan Opera
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Dominican Republic · October 21, 2023
Theatrical
United States · October 21, 2023
Limited theatrical · The Metropolitan Live in HD Broadcast
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