Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking, jazz-inflected opera about the civil right’s leader arrives at the Met at long last in a potent new staging from Slave Play director Robert O’Hara.
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.
CONDUCTOR
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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
PRODUCTION
Ivo van Hove
SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNER
Jan Versweyveld
COSTUME DESIGNER
An D’Huys
PROJECTION DESIGNER
Christopher Ash
SOUND DESIGNER
Tom Gibbons
ONSALE DATES
Thu Sep 14
BAM Members and Patrons at 12pm
Tue Sep 19
General Public at 12pm
UPCOMING Performances
RUNNING TIME
195min
VENUE
ALL TICKETS:
$34 for screening + discussion ($29 for BAM & Met members).
Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation
Leadership support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation and The Thompson Family Foundation
Met members must order by phone or in person at the BAM Box Office to take advantage of the $5 member discount. Other BAM Membership discounts do not apply.
