Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Elise Quagliata

Sister Helen Prejean

Baritone

Timothy Mix

Joseph De Rocher

Tenor

Andrew Peck

Howard Boucher

Steven Sanders

Father Grenville

Conductor

Sara Jobin

Stage director

David Radamés Toro

Choreographer

Jen Gorman

Stephanie Weiss

Mrs. Patrick De Rocher

Soprano

Shawnette Sulker

Sister Rose

Brian Montgomery

George Benton

Michele Detwiler

Jade Boucher

Jason Detwiler

Owen Hart

Sara Stejskal

Kitty Hart

Victoria Esposito

Sister Catherine

Sable Strout

Sister Lillianne

Jack Canfield

1. Prison Guard

A Motor Cop

Andrew Robinson

2. Prison Guard

Opera Idaho

English

Dead Man Walking

Boise

United States

The Egyptian Theatre

Dead Man Walking Heggie

Public

Approved

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. Director David Radamés Toro, who has staged Dead Man Walking for Minnesota Opera, makes his Opera Idaho debut.

Dead Man Walking by Heggie, From (2022/2022), Directed by David Radamés Toro,, Conductor Sara Jobin, The Egyptian Theatre, Boise, United States

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