JACKSON, Wyo. — Grand Teton Music Festival will rebroadcast The Met Opera’s Dead Man Walking in high-definition Sunday, Jan. 28 from 3 to 6 p.m at the Center for the Arts’ theater.
This rebroadcast is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. Tickets are $25, and the production will run for three hours, including one intermission with exclusive behind-the-scenes content and cast interviews.
American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, was premiered at The Met in September 2023 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.
The Washington Post wrote, “wild applause and standing ovations … Dead Man Walking makes its arresting Met debut … the finest and most engaged work I’ve ever seen or heard from Joyce DiDonato … Ryan McKinny sang the role of De Rocher with figurative and literal muscular force … Revelatory singing.”
The production’s trailer can be seen on youtube.
“Dead Man Walking” tickets can be purchased here, and all four Met Opera in HD rebroadcast events can be purchased here.
Content Advisory: Dead Man Walking contains a depiction of a rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language. Not recommended for audience members under the age of 15.
