The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023)
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.
Director: Ivo van Hove
https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/2023-24-season/dead-man-walking/
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Latonia Moore as Sister Rose |
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Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean |
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Ryan McKinny as Joseph de Rocher |
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Susan Graham as Mrs. Patrick de Rocher |
| Lighting | Jan Versweyveld | Lighting Design |
| Writing | Helen Prejean | Original Concept |
| Art | Jan Versweyveld | Set Designer |
| Writing | Terrence McNally | Writer |
| Costume & Make-Up | An D'Huys | Costume Designer |
| Directing | Ivo van Hove | Director |
| Production | Christopher Ash | Production Designer |
| Sound | Tom Gibbons | Sound Designer |
