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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking

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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.

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Released
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Language
English
  • opera
  • death row
  • based on true story
  • rape and murder
  • based on movie
  • the metropolitan opera
  • adaptation

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Director

Ivo van Hove

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)NRThe Metropolitan Live in HD Broadcast21 Oct 2023
  • Dominican RepublicDO

    • Theatrical21 Oct 2023

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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking was released on 21 October 2023.

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