DEAD MAN WALKING (Jake Heggie) – Libretto by Terrence McNally – Based on the Book by Sister Helen Prejean New Production/Met Premiere

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.

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

Ivo van Hove (Production); Jan Versweyveld (Set and Lighting Designer), An D’Huys (Costume Designer), Christopher Ash (Projection Designer), Tom Gibbons (Sound Designer)