The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man WalkingMovie
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.
About The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking is a 2023 music, drama movie directed by Ivo van Hove.
The production information lists a runtime of 3h 15m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Latonia Moore, Joyce DiDonato, Ryan McKinny, Susan Graham. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
