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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.

Cast

Yannick Nezet-Sequin • Latonia Moore • Joyce DiDonato

Director

Ivo Van Hove

Running Time

194 minutes
contains a depiction of a rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language.