The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking 2023
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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.
- Released : 2023-10-21
- Runtime : 195 minutes
- Genre : Music, Drama
- Stars : Latonia Moore, Joyce DiDonato, Ryan McKinny, Susan Graham
- Director : Terrence McNally, Helen Prejean, Jan Versweyveld, Jan Versweyveld, Ivo van Hove
