The Making of Dead Man Walking
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Members of the cast and creative team behind the highly anticipated Met premiere of Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally’s dramatic masterpiece discuss the work and Ivo van Hove’s haunting new production. 2023-24 season.
This is bound to be a most profoundly unforgettable adaptation of Dead Man Walking. Thank you all for sharing this making-of documentary.
Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny, both amazing. One of the best contemporary operas that couldn't be written in Europe. Equal Justice USA!
I’m still reeling from seeing this on Saturday….monumental is all I can say. Opera couldn’t be more grand…
Sister Helen is carrying on a very old Catholic tradition. One example: In 1375 a young man fell afoul of the laws of Siena, an Italian city-state, and was condemned to death by beheading. A religious woman, Catherine of Siena, comforted him in prison and on the day of the execution was there with him on the scaffold.
She prayed with him briefly and when he kneeled down with his neck stretched out for the executioner's axe, she put her hands under his eyes, where he could see them, and when the axe came down, his head fell into those hands. She herself died young and was soon declared a saint
True story!
Great! Cannot wait!❤
I CANNOT WAIT! This looks so incredible and I've cried almost every time I've seen this video.
Very excited to see this on Saturday 29!
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I adore Joyce DiDonato, but why did she Botox her lips? She doesn’t need that. I’m sorry.
What’s your point…
@@louisbrechter9486 I don't think she needs plastic surgery or botox injections to look more beautiful. She is beautiful as she is. That's my point.
I've not seen many more shallow comments online ever. Sheesh!
The Metropolitan Opera with its nearly 4000 seats is going to swallow this intimate chamber opera whole. This kind of nuanced, intimate piece should not be presented on the same stage as Aida and Carmen. That makes no sense.
Think about Aida. Or Traviata. LOTS of seemingly big operas actually center on intimate moments, which can play beautifully in the house. This is a well-established work and it's high time that the Met puts it on.
Your comment makes no sense at all. It's an opera, to be performed in theaters, people all the way in the back can hear pianissimo orchestras and singers all the time.
Come again? Could you define 'mundane/"nuanced"'? Wdym?
You are simply wrong. The Met set is intentionally and successfully constrained and serves well for both the religious house sister Helen lives in and even more so for the prison. Believe me, it works beautifully.
Just....no. With hundreds of years of opera to help us rise above the mundane? This is just not necessary.
Uh, I hardly call the topic of capital punishment mundane. And a LOT of operas in history deal with it, especially in response to the Reign of Terror.
I'm confused...Do you want people to stop writing operas? This is a genuine question, I'm not trying to argue, I'm just curious.
@@jaydoggy9043 There's enough ugliness in the news. I watch opera to rise above, not fall in.
@@caeligratia6706 Stop writing operas? Not at all! 😊 But, when I think of traditional operas, tragic or comic, there's always an element of grace, subtlety, and dignity. I subscribe to the Schopenhauerean/Nietzschean view that we can reach the supramundane through art. An opera about a representative of one of the most corrupt organizations ever trying to comfort a rapist and having him ask for forgiveness from a sociopathic mythical sky god? No thank you. There are countless other modern tales that deserve an operatic telling a thousand times more than "Dead Man Walking." (What? Me? Strong opinions about music? No! 🤓) Thank you for asking a question kindly and reasonably. 🙏🤍🙏
@@veritascurat5283 I think you might be setting aside a LOT of the "ugly" topics in opera, so I'm rather bemused by that response.