📜 Overview:
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.
🌏 Languages Available:
English
📆 Date Released:
2023-10-21
⌚ Running Time:
195 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.5
Beloved Cast
Sister Rose
Latonia Moore
Sister Helen Prejean
Joyce DiDonato
Joseph de Rocher
Ryan McKinny
Mrs. Patrick de Rocher
Susan Graham
