Jake Heggie's version of “Dead Man Walking” reaches the Metropolitan Opera for the season’s opening night in a production by Tony and Olivier Award winner Ivo van Hove starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean.
“All of a sudden the piece has more resonance than ever,” Heggie said. “And that’s here as well as internationally, because it’s still a debate among a lot of people. It’s established in a lot of these abolitionist countries that there is no death penalty — the government, we don’t kill people for their crimes. And yet there are a lot of people who still wish that they would.”
Published in 1993, “Dead Man Walking” has sold nearly 800,000 copies, according to Knopf Doubleday. Tim Robbins adapted it into a 1995 movie that earned Susan Sarandon the Academy Award for best actress for her portrayal of Prejean. “Sondheim actually said to me: 50% of the success of any project is the idea of a story. It’s finding the story that’s going to set you on fire,” Heggie said, recounting composer Stephen Sondheim’s advice.
“I’ve had so much life experience since then and in particular going into prisons and doing work in prisons and meeting men who all have been convicted of murder, who are guilty of murder, and interacting with them and learning more about the justice system.” she said. “And having lived the last two decades of this world that has gotten a little bit further and further away from the idea of love, universal love.
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