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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking (2023)
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Music, Drama · 3h 15m
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.
Cast
Latonia Moore
Joyce DiDonato
Susan Graham
Crew
- Director
- Ivo van Hove
- Writer
- Terrence McNally
Details
- Release date
- 2023-10-21
- Runtime
- 3h 15m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- The Metropolitan Opera