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October 7, 2000. ( 2000-10-07) War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. Dead Man Walking is the first opera composed by American Jake Heggie, with a libretto by playwright Terrence McNally. Based on the book of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., the work premiered on October 7, 2000, at the War Memorial Opera House, produced by the ...
Dead Man Walking. This production ran: Sep 26 - Oct 21. This production is in the past. $25 rush tickets are available for every performance and go on sale for Monday through Friday evening performances at noon, for matinees four hours before curtain, and for Saturday evenings at 2:00PM. Learn more about the Met's rush ticketing program here.
Oct 21, 2023 · World premiere: San Francisco Opera, 2000 The most widely performed new opera of the last two decades, Dead Man Walking is adapted from the groundbreaking memoir by Sister Helen Prejean. It concerns her ministry to condemned murderers on death row, and in bringing this powerful story to the operatic stage, composer Jake Heggie created a score ...
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Dead Man Walking. The Met launched its 2023–24 season with the company premiere of the most performed new work of the last two decades: Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking. Based on the harrowing memoir by Sister Helen Prejean—which also inspired an Oscar-winning 1995 film—the opera follows Prejean as she ministers to a condemned man on ...
Mar 14, 2024 · Joyce DiDonato stars as Sister Helen Prejean, a nun who befriends a death-row inmate, in Jake Heggie's acclaimed opera based on a true story. Watch the preview and learn more about the Met premiere of this powerful and poignant work on March 17, 2024.
Sep 27, 2023 · A new production of Jake Heggie's opera based on a true story of a nun and a death row inmate opens the Met's 2023-24 season. The review praises the music, the cast, and the themes, but criticizes the staging as messy and confusing.
Dead Man Walking begins and ends with a murder: one by A man, the other by the state.The question posed by Jake Heggie’s opera— based on activist Sister Helen Prejean’s bestselling eponymous memoir—is whether justice can be served, and forgiveness granted, in either case.
