HD ENCORE – Dead Man Walking
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- Event DateDecember 3, 2023
- Time12:55 pm - 3:00 pm
- TypeIn-Person
- LocationThe Regent Theatre, Picton Main Street, Picton, ON
About HD ENCORE – Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas on October 21 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 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 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.
COMPOSER
Jake Heggie
CONDUCTOR
Yannick Nézet-Séguin
CAST
Latonia Moore, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Ryan McKinny
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