Dead Man Walking

JAKE HEGGIE / LIBRETTO BY TERRENCE McNALLY

Dead Man Walking

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Overview

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 Tony and Emmy Award–winner 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.

Music by Jake Heggie, libretto by Terrence McNally
Based on the Book by Sister Helen Prejean

Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III; the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation; Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante, in memory of Terrence McNally; and Mrs. Diane B. Wilsey

Additional funding from Franci Neely; Judy and Jim Pohlman; Denise Littlefield Sobel, in memory of Phyllis Cannon Wattis; and The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. and Oscar Tang Endowment Fund

 

Languages

Languages sung in Dead Man Walking

Sung In

English

Titles

Title languages displayed for Dead Man Walking

Met Titles In

  • English
  • German
  • Spanish

Timeline

Timeline for the show, Dead Man Walking

Estimated Run Time

2 hrs 50 mins

  • House Opens

  • Act I

    80 mins

  • Intermission

    30 mins

  • Act II

    65 mins

  • Opera Ends

Creators

PRODUCTION

Ivo van Hove

SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNER

Jan Versweyveld

COSTUME DESIGNER

An D’Huys

PROJECTION DESIGNER

Christopher Ash

Sound Designer

Tom Gibbons

Jake Heggie

Composer

Jake Heggie

Librettist

Terrence McNally

Dead Man Walking