Organization

Conductor

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Steven Osgood

Stage director

Ivo van Hove

Set designer

Jan Versweyveld

Lighting designer

Costume designer

An D'Huys

Video designer

Christopher Ash

Sound designer

Tom Gibbons

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Joyce DiDonato

Sister Helen Prejean

Soprano

Latonia Moore

Sister Rose

Baritone

Ryan McKinny

Joseph De Rocher

Susan Graham

Mrs. Patrick De Rocher

The Metropolitan Opera

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

David Adam Moore

Krysty Swann

Jade Boucher

Béarla

Dead Man Walking

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Dead Man Walking Heggie

Public

Gearmáinis

Spáinnis

Approved

Dead Man Walking Jake Heggie

Take a look behind the scenes at our photo shoot for Dead Man Walking, with Joyce DiDonato, Ryan McKinny, and photographer Paola Kudacki. The curtain rises on Jake Heggie’s acclaimed opera September 26, 2023. Videography by Neville Braithwaite / Met Opera.

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.

English

Dead Man Walking by Heggie, Ó (2023/2023), Faoi stiúir Ivo van Hove,, Seoltóir Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Steven Osgood, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, United States

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Cast & Crew )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Físeáin

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid