An opera examining love, pain and redemption gets its Metropolitan Opera debut in New York.
Opera singers Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny perform during the dress rehearsal of ‘Dead Man Walking’ at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
The operatic version of “Dead Man Walking” was composed by Jake Heggie, with Terrence McNally penning the libretto. This year’s haunting Met production features mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen. After witnessing the death by electric chair of Elmo Patrick Sonnier – who the character of Joseph De Rocher is based on – she has accompanied a number of prisoners to their executions and hopes her book, the film and the opera can “wake people up” to her belief that the death penalty is morally wrong.
In the next moment Sister Helen, who begins a correspondence with the convict as part of her Order’s community outreach, is preparing to meet him at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. “There’s the… thing of blaming individuals, we never look at the context of the culture in the society,” she said, adding that beyond asking who did what, it’s important to ask, “What did we do wrong?”The Met’s production of “Dead Man Walking” is part of the 143-year-old institution’s shift towards more contemporary works, as it aims to diversify its audiences that traditionally skew elderly and white.
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