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The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
2023 | 195m | English
Popularity: 0.7 (history)
| Director: | Ivo van Hove |
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| Writer: | Terrence McNally |
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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. | |
| Release Date: | Oct 21, 2023 |
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| Director: | Ivo van Hove |
| Writer: | Terrence McNally |
| Genres: | Music, Drama |
| Keywords | opera, death row, based on true story, rape and murder, based on movie, the metropolitan opera, adaptation |
| Production Companies | The Metropolitan Opera |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 08, 2026 Entered: May 05, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Latonia Moore | Sister Rose |
| Joyce DiDonato | Sister Helen Prejean |
| Ryan McKinny | Joseph de Rocher |
| Susan Graham | Mrs. Patrick de Rocher |
| Name | Job |
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| Ivo van Hove | Director |
| An D'Huys | Costume Designer |
| Tom Gibbons | Sound Designer |
| Christopher Ash | Production Designer |
| Helen Prejean | Original Concept |
| Jan Versweyveld | Lighting Design, Set Designer |
| Terrence McNally | Writer |
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