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 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.
General Public: $20 (+$3 service fee), Dreamland Members: $18, Free for Seniors (Age 65 & up)
**Complimentary Senior tickets funded in part by The Landmark House Grant Fund.
**Free senior tickets are subject to verification at theater. Limit 2 free senior tickets per order.