Met Opera Gala 2023. JAKE HEGGIE / TERRENCE MCNALLY Dead Man Walking. Ryan McKinny. Joyce DiDonato.

Met Opera Gala 2023
JAKE HEGGIE / LIBRETTO BY TERRENCE MCNALLY
Dead Man Walking
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin
bass-baritone Ryan McKinny
mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato
American composer #JakeHeggie’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 #JoyceDiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The outstanding cast also features bass-baritone #RyanMcKinny as the death-row inmate #JosephDeRocher, 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.
Music by #JakeHeggie, libretto by #TerrenceMcNally
Based on the Book by #SisterHelenPrejean
Children’s Chorus: Young People’s Chorus of New York City (Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director and Founder; Emma H. Sway, Assistant Conductor)
Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III; the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation; Ted Snowdon and Duffy Violante, in memory of Terrence McNally; and Mrs. Diane B. Wilsey
Additional support from Franci Neely; Judy and Jim Pohlman; Denise Littlefield Sobel, in memory of Phyllis Cannon Wattis; and The H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang, Ph.D. and Oscar Tang Endowment Fund
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#DeadManWalking is part of the Neubauer Family Foundation New Works Initiative
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[@brookemartin6101]

Wow, it looked like such an incredible evening!.

[@nadineghammache4589]

Sister Helen Prejean is a Saint!