Met Opera Premiere Dead Man Walking April 8, 2021, feature Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean

Van Hove’s production of Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking will premiere on April 8, 2021, and will feature Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean. Etienne Dupuis will take on the role of the condemned inmate Joseph De Rocher; Latonia Moore sings Sister Rose; and Susan Graham, who sang Prejean at the opera’s 2000 world premiere, will now sing De Rocher’s mother.