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Heggie's Dead Man Walking with Opera Idaho
Apr
22
to Apr 24
opera, contemporary opera

Heggie's Dead Man Walking with Opera Idaho

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Now one of the most performed American operas of all time, Jake Heggie’s first opera Dead Man Walking was commissioned by and premiered at San Francisco Opera in 2000. Dead Man Walking is based on a 1993 memoir of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, which was subsequently made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. It is a heart-wrenching story of grief, grace and redemption, recounting Sister Helen’s courageous struggle to provide spiritual guidance to a condemned Louisiana murderer in the months leading up to his execution.

Heggie has become the leading living American composer of operas, having also written The End of the Affair, Three Decembers, Moby Dick, If I Were You and It’s a Wonderful Life. Sara Jobin (most recently Evgeny Onegin, 2015) returns to conduct.

Sister Helen Prejean: Elise Quagliata

Joseph De Rocher: Tim Mix

Mrs. De Rocher: Stephanie Weiss

Sister Rose: Shawnette Sulker

Conductor: Sara Jobin

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Apr
24
to Apr 26
opera

Sister Helen in Dead Man Walking

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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

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