NY Met Opera: Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie

Live screening from the New York Metropolitan Opera.

Parental discretion is advised - this production contains adult themes and strong language.

Dead Man Walking is the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years. A masterpiece of American composer Jake Heggie, this haunting new production by Ivo van Hove finally has its highly anticipated Met premiere.
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.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium for this landmark premiere, 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.

This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to cinemas across the globe.