The Met in HD: Dead Man Walking
(Delayed broadcast from the live performance on October 21)

ADMISSION:
Admission is free. Reservations required.

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DESCRIPTION:
Experience award-winning opera as you’ve never seen it before—larger than life with better-than-front-row angles, glorious sound, and exclusive access behind the scenes—in this state-of-the-art transmission of The Met’s haunting new production of American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, 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, 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 opera will be preceded by a discussion hosted by Ken Cazan, resident stage director and professor of opera at the USC Thornton School of Music.

Schedule:
12 p.m.: Pre-opera discussion 
1 p.m.: HD opera broadcast

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Presented by USC Visions and Voices. Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts in conjunction with the USC Thornton School of Music and the Metropolitan Opera.