Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking—MET PREMIERE

Content Advisory: Dead Man Walking contains a depiction of rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language.

• Librettist: Terrence McNally 

• Production: Ivo van Hove

• Set and Lighting Designer: Jan Versweyveld

• Costume Designer: An D’Huys

• Projection Designer: Christopher Ash

• Sound Designer: Tom Gibbons

Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Latonia Moore (Sister Rose), Joyce DiDonato (Sister Helen Prejean), Susan Graham (Mrs. Patrick De Rocher), Ryan McKinny (Joseph De Rocher) 

Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a 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 poignant music and a 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 cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother.