Organization

Dirigent

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Steven Osgood

Regisseur

Ivo van Hove

Set designer

Jan Versweyveld

Licht ontwerper

Kostuum ontwerper

An D'Huys

Video ontwerper

Christopher Ash

Geluidsontwerper

Tom Gibbons

Zanger

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

Engels

Dead Man Walking

New York

Verenigde Staten

Metropolitan Opera House

Dead Man Walking Heggie

Public

Duits

Spaans

Approved

Dead Man Walking Jake Heggie

Joyce DiDonato, as Sister Helen Prejean, sings an excerpt from the final scene in an early rehearsal. 2023–24 season. Videography by Neville Braithwaite.

Dead Man Walking: “He will gather us around”

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

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam

Ensemble