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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
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Released: October 21, 2023
Director: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Producer: Ivo van Hove
Studio: The Metropolitan Opera
Cast: Joyce DiDonato, Ryan McKinny, Latonia Moore, Susan Graham
Genre: Opera
Length: 195 minutes

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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking Overview

Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a 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 poignant music and a 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 cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother. Steven Osgood conducts two performances in his Met debut.

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