Jake Heggie/ Libretto by Terrence McNally
DEAD MAN WALKING

October 21, 2023 at 1pm


American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, is presented 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.

​Content Advisory: Dead Man Walking contains a depiction of a rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language.

THE CAST

Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Latonia Moore as Sister Rose
Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean
Ryan McKinny as Joseph De Rocher
Susan Graham as Mrs. Patrick De Rocher

RUNTIME

3 Hours and 15 Minutes with 1 Intermission