LFPL's At the Library Series

Kentucky Opera Lecture Series: Dead Man Walking with author Sister Helen Prejean and composer Jake HeggieFaith. Justice. Redemption. These may be familiar operatic themes, but Dead Man Walking is no ordinary opera: the story revolves around a nun and her journey to advise a condemned prisoner on death row. Set in contemporary Louisiana, the opera is based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean and composed by Jake Heggie.Join special guests Principal Conductor Joseph Mechavich and Ellen Douglas Schlaefer, Director of Opera Studies for the University of South Carolina, and composer Jake Heggie for a discussion about opera, redemption, and the criminal justice system. Ian Derrer, General Director of Kentucky Opera, serves as moderator.This lecture is the second of a three-part series with the Kentucky Opera.