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Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking • WXXI-TV

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A white man with brown short hair, beard and mustache wearing prison scubs stands before a white woman with short blonde hair wearing a gray dress. She is pointed her finger at him.

Experience Ivo van Hove’s production of composer Jake Heggie’s opera in its Met premiere.

Great Performances at the Met: Dead Man Walking airs Friday, March 15 at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

Experience Tony Award-winning director Ivo van Hove’s production of composer Jake Heggie’s opera based on a true story. With a libretto by Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, famed soprano Joyce DiDonato stars as Sister Helen alongside bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death row inmate Joseph De Rocher. The cast also features Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere, plays De Rocher’s mother. Based on Sister Helen’s real-life memoir about the fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts this Metropolitan Opera premiere. Grammy winner Rhiannon Giddens hosts the broadcast.

Photo: Ryan McKinny and Joyce DiDonato • Credit: Provided by PBS

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