Lyric Opera 2019-2020 Issue 4 Dead Man Walking

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 18 Jake Heggie | An opera in two acts in English Libretto by Terrence McNally, based on the novel by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE A teenage boy Miles Borchard + A teenage girl Ari Kraiman + Joseph De Rocher Ryan McKinny + Anthony De Rocher, Joseph’s younger brother Michael Saubert, Jr. + Sister Helen Prejean Patricia Racette Sister Rose Whitney Morrison •• Children Chicago Children’s Choir A Mother Maia Surace Sister Lillianne Corinne Wallace-Crane Sister Catherine Desirée Hassler Mrs. Charlton Marie Sokolova A motorcycle cop Christopher Kenney • Father Grenville, the prison chaplain Clay Hilley + George Benton, the prison warden Gordon Hawkins Prison guards David Weigel • , Anthony Reed • + Solo inmates Joe Shadday, Nicholas Ward, Matthew Carroll, Kenneth Nichols , Nikolas Wenzel A paralegal Emily Pogorelc • Joseph’s 19-year-old brother Eric Ferring • Mrs. Patrick De Rocher, Joseph’s mother Susan Graham Owen Hart, father of the murdered girl Wayne Tigges •• Jade Boucher, mother of the murdered boy Lauren Decker • Kitty Hart, mother of the murdered girl Talise Trevigne + Howard Boucher, father of the murdered boy Allan Glassman + Joseph’s 14-year-old brother Ethan Warren + Conductor Nicole Paiement + Director Leonard Foglia Set Designer Michael McGarty + Costume Designer Jess Goldstein + Lighting Designer Brian Nason Projection Designer Elaine J. McCarthy Sound Designer Roger Gans + Chorus Master Michael Black Children’s Chorus Master Josephine Lee Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Sarah Hatten Associate Director Katrina Bachus Assistant Director David Carl Toulson Stage Manager Rachel C. Henneberry Musical Preparation William C. Billingham Noah Lindquist Matthew Piatt Stefano Sarzani Fight Director Chuck Coyl Intimacy Director Tonia Sina + Dialect Coach Kate DeVore Projected English Titles Colin Ure Javier Del Real/Teatro Real Madrid Dead Man Walking Lyric Premiere First performed by San Francisco Opera on October 7, 2000 First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on November 2, 2019 + Lyric debut • Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center •• Alumni, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center