American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, has its highly anticipated Met premiere, 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 Terrence McNally.
Libretto by Terrence McNally - Based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean
New Production/Met Premiere
Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Latonia (Sister Rose), Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher)
Ivo van Hove (Production); Jan Versweyveld (Set and Lighting Designer), An D'Huys (Costume Designer), Christopher Ash (Projection Designer), Tom Gibbons (Sound Designer)
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The show is in the MLT.