Elise revisits this amazing role for her sixth production of Jake Heggie’s seminal contemporary opera, Dead Man Walking, based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean.

Heggie has become the leading living American composer of operas, having also written The End of the Affair, Three Decembers, Moby Dick and It’s a Wonderful Life. He is currently at work on If I Were You, a new opera commissioned by San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. Sara Jobin (most recently Evgeny Onegin, 2015) returns to conduct. Sara is the newly appointed artistic director of The Center for Contemporary Opera and last season made an important debut, conducting the LA Phil New Music Group at Disney Hall. Director Kristine McIntyre, who has staged the opera in Kansas City, Des Moines and Madison, makes her Opera Idaho debut.

Friday, April 24, 2020 at 7:30pm and Sunday, April 26, 2020 at 2:30pm

Elise Quagliata, Sister Helen Prejean

Tim Mix, Joseph De Rocher

Kristine McIntyre, director

Sara Jobin, conductor