
JAKE HEGGIE / LIBRETTO BY TERRENCE McNALLY
Dead Man Walking
LIVE IN HD
Overview
American composer Jake Heggie’s 21st-century masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, has its highly anticipated Met premiere, in Ivo van Hove’s second new staging of the season. 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. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium when this important work comes to cinemas April 17, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Helen Prejean. The outstanding cast also features baritone Etienne Dupuis as the condemned Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and legendary mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang 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 more than 2,200 theaters in more than 70 countries worldwide.
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Music by Jake Heggie, libretto by Terrence McNally
Based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean
Production a gift of Ann and Gordon Getty, and Diane B. Wilsey
Additional funding from Franci Neely, and The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD. 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 49 mins
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House Opens
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Act I
77 mins
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Intermission
28 mins
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Act II
64 mins
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Opera Ends
Creators
PRODUCTION
Ivo van Hove
SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNER
Jan Versweyveld
COSTUME DESIGNER
An D’Huys
PROJECTION DESIGNER
Christopher Ash

Composer
Jake Heggie
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