Jake Heggie’s powerful work has its highly anticipated Met premiere in a new production by Ivo van Hove.

SYNOPSIS

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.

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

Saturday, October 21, 2023 – 11:55am

Sunday, October 22, 2023 – 1:00pm

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$24 General Admission
$22 Seniors
$17 Members, Students, Military
$5   UNL, Nebraska Wesleyan, Union College, and SCC Students

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Estimated Run Time

195 Minues