Dead Man Walking

Album by Jake Heggie & Susan Graham & Frederica von Stade & John Packard & San Francisco Opera Chorus & San Francisco Opera Orchestra & Patrick Summers

Dead Man Walking is an opera by American composer Jake Heggie, premiered in 2000. The work blends contemporary classical idioms with lyrical vocal writing and accessible tonal elements to dramatisise themes of crime, punishment and redemption, and it helped establish Heggie's reputation in early-21st-century American opera.
First released: 25th March 2002

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Dead Man Walking: Prelude
    2:41
  2. 2.
    Dead Man Walking: Prelude
    0:16
  3. 3.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 1, Joseph's Cell: 31...32...33...
    8:20
  4. 4.
    Dead Man Walking: Prologue
    3:45
  5. 5.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 1, Hope House: 'He will gather us around'
    8:17
  6. 6.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 2, Sister Helen's Bedroom: Oh!... now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
    6:24
  7. 7.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 2, Duet: Sometimes forgiveness is - Scene 3. Joseph's Cell. Well? Well?
    4:58
  8. 8.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 2, The Drive to Angola State Prison: 'Be careful', people have always told me.
    8:28
  9. 9.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 2, Aria: This journey. This journey to Christ.
    2:39
  10. 10.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 3, What Time Is It
    5:48
  11. 11.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 3, Outside of Angola State Penitentiary: Sister Helen? I've been waiting for you.
    2:42
  12. 12.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 4, The Visiting Room: Wow! Those new Ford Mustangs are so cool.
    6:40
  13. 13.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 4, Aria: Dont' say a word
    5:52
  14. 14.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 4, Father Grenville's Office: Some of them didn't look so bad.
    3:27
  15. 15.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 4, Who will walk with me?
    2:06
  16. 16.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 4, I don't like that man.
    3:30
  17. 17.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 5, The Walk through Death Row: Woman on the tier!
    2:52
  18. 18.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 5, Outside the Death House: Good Evening.
    2:25
  19. 19.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 5, Duet: I've said some harsh things.
    2:39
  20. 20.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 6, The Death Row Visiting Room: Thank you.
    5:56
  21. 21.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 6, Aria: A warm night.
    5:05
  22. 22.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 6, Joseph's Holding Cell: You're a regular illustrated man, De Rocher.
    1:20
  23. 23.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 7, The Confession: How much longer? How much more time?
    2:50
  24. 24.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 7, The Pardon Board Meeting: The defendant's mother, Mrs. Patrick De Rocher
    9:20
  25. 25.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 7, We'd been drinkin' and smokin' weed at the road house.
    7:22
  26. 26.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 8, The parking lot outside the courthouse: It's a good sign when they take so long.
    2:00
  27. 27.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 8, Sextet: You don't know what it's like to bear a child.
    5:10
  28. 28.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 8, The Execution: Dead Man Walking!
    6:25
  29. 29.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 8, It is the decision of this Pardon Board
    1:30
  30. 30.
    Dead Man Walking: Act Two, Scene 8, 'He will gather us around.'
    1:16
  31. 31.
    [applause]
    3:09
  32. 32.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 9, The Death Row Visiting Room: Guess your nun ain't comin' back - Scene 10: Excuse me
    6:39
  33. 33.
    Dead Man Walking: Act One, Scene 10, 'He will gather us around.'
    3:59

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