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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

★ 6.5 (2 votes) | 2023 | 3h 15m
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Overview

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.

Details
  • Status Released
  • Release Date October 21, 2023
  • Budget N/A
  • Revenue N/A
  • Production The Metropolitan Opera

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Dead Man Walking: Trailer
Dead Man Walking: Trailer
The Making of Dead Man Walking
The Making of Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking at the Met
Dead Man Walking at the Met

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