Agence France-Presse

'Dead Man Walking,' an emotional look at death row, opens Met Opera season
September 2023

It's been three decades since Sister Helen Prejean entered the public eye for her memoir "Dead Man Walking," a recounting of her relationship with a death row inmate whose execution she witnessed. The 1993 best-selling memoir was made into an Oscar-winning film as well as an opera examining love, pain and redemption that after twenty-some years on the stage is core to the contemporary canon, and this Tuesday gets its Met debut in New York.