MET Opera Live: Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking

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MET Opera Live: Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking

Saturday 21 October 2023

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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.

Ticket prices:

Standard £19.50 Concessions £17.50

Certificate: TBC

Length: 209 minutes

Director: Jake Heggie

Cast: Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Latonia Moore, Ryan McKinny

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Dates and times

Saturday 21 October 2023 | 5:40 pm

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