Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival - Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking
Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 07:30pm
Metropolitan Opera Summer HD Festival
Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza
The Met’s 15th Summer HD Festival features ten thrilling performances from the company’s Live in HD series of cinema transmissions-plus a special screening of the Oscar-winning film The Red Violin, co-presented with Film at Lincoln Center. The showings run nightly, with approximately 3,000 seats set up in front of the opera house, as well as additional standing room in designated areas around Lincoln Center Plaza.
The Met’s HD Festival presentations will include full open captions.
Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking:
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato headlines Jake Heggie’s harrowing opera of faith and redemption, starring as a Catholic nun determined to save the soul of a condemned criminal.
Original transmission: October 21, 2023
Approximate running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes
