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About the event
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas 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.
Content Advisory: Dead Man Walking contains adult themes and strong language.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/R5olGIVf5sQ?si=ww7kJj7XHxVPOxyo
Emperor Cinemas (Entertainment Building)
- 21 January 2024 (SUN) 4:00pm
- 3/F, Entertainment Building, 30 Queens Road Central, Central, Hong Kong map
K11 Art House
- 3 March 2024 (SUN) 3:00pm
- Level 4, K11 MUSEA, Victoria Dockside, 18 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon (East Tsim Sha Tsui MTR Station Exit J) map
Premiere Elements
- 23 March 2023 (SAT) 3:40pm
- 2130, 2/F, Fire, ELEMENTS, 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon map
Latest screening schedule: https://bit.ly/41zP2FZ
*Senior and Student: $230
* 10% off upon showing Hong Kong Arts Administrators Association (HKAAA) membership card at cinemas’ ticket office
About the organizer
The Foundation for the Arts and Music in Asia (FAMA) is a not-for-profit organisation created to increase the awareness of classical vocal music in the region and to foster an appreciation of the art of Western opera. With The Met: Live in HD program, FAMA is delighted to give residents of Hong Kong the opportunity to experience world-class opera performances from one of the world’s most famous opera companies, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at selected cinemas in Hong Kong.