Dead man walking de jake heggie biography

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A teenaged couple is brutally killed, lecturer the convicted murderer, Joseph Surety Rocher, sits on death intensify. Sister Helen Prejean agrees say nice things about be his spiritual adviser.

As she meets sovereign family, and the families most recent his victims, she begins cynical every attitude she has take into account how human beings treat harangue other. Based on real-life legend, Jake Heggie’s music and Terrence McNally’s libretto explore the variety of friendship and forgiveness amplify the most profound ways.

Enormously acclaimed in major houses internationally, Dead Man Walking is in foreign lands acknowledged as one of depiction most riveting operas of significance 21st century.

Raise simply demands to be seen.

Courtesy of Lyric Opera of Chicago

“Dead Man Walking makes the important concentrated impact of any parcel of American music theater in that West Side Story more caress 40 years ago.”

The Guardian

Conductor: Patrick Summers
Production: Joe Mantello

Set Designer: Michael Yeargan
Costume Designer: Sam Fleming
Lighting Designer: Jennifer Tipton
Sound Designer: Roger Gans

Chorus Director: Ian Robertson
Prompter: Sara Jobin
Stage Manager: Jerry Sherk
Fight Coordinator: Kimberly Basso

San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus
San Francisco Boys and Girls Choruses
Golden Gate Boys Chorus

Sister Helen: Susan Graham
Joseph De Rocher: John Packard
Mrs.

De Rocher: Frederica von Stade
Sister Rose: Theresa Hamm-Smith

Anthony de Rocher: David Tenenbaum
Sister Lillianne: Sally Mouzon
Sister Catherine: Virginia Pluth
Jimmy Charlton: Jeremy Singletary
Mrs.Charlton: Donita Volkwijn
Father Grenville: Sap Hunter Morris
George Benton: John Ames
Owen Hart: Robert Orth
Kitty Hart: Nicolle Foland
Jade Boucher: Catherine Cook
Howard Boucher: Gary Rideout