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Heggie: Dead Man Walking (Live recording of 2000 world premiere production) Reviews
Heggie: Dead Man Walking (Live recording of 2000 world premiere production) Reviews
| 19 of 19 people found the following review helpful  Opera for a twenty-first century audience, By Tyler "davistyler" (Walla Walla, WA United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Heggie: Dead Man Walking (Live recording of 2000 world premiere production) (Audio CD) Jake Heggie's first opera, Dead Man Walking, is a triumph of musical and dramatic genius. McNally's libretto tightens the scope of Prejean's lengthy narrative to its dramatic essentials. The story is moving and poignant: an exploration of the intense and vivid emotions surrounding this deeply complicated process, but mixed with wonderful bits of humor and lighter sentiment. The duet about Las Vegas is particularly entertaining, and also touching in its personability.Heggie is at home writing for the voice, which is apparent in the hymn "He will gather us around", but also in Joe's aria "A Warm Night...", the Act 2 Duet between Sister Helen and Sister Rose, and also von Stade's moving goodbye to Joe in Act 2. It's rediculously inaccurate to say that there are no hummable tunes in the opera, and every one of those tunes has a special place on the dramatic trajectory of this powerful work. The singing is also fabulous. John Packard is better live than on... Read more 17 of 18 people found the following review helpful Oh My God!!!!, By This review is from: Heggie: Dead Man Walking (Live recording of 2000 world premiere production) (Audio CD) I first listened to this recording on a plane last week. The women sitting next to me asked me "If I was OK." I was frequently moved to tears. I listened to it again while I was laying on the beach on vacation last week. Again, the people around me wondered if I was OK or not - more tears. Most everyone probably already knows the story of this opera so I won't discuss that here, but I will say that the condensation of the plot is amazingly concise and to the point. The singing is phenomenal - Susan Graham brings incredible life to the role of Sisten Helen. Flicka von Stade, as the mother, brings a pathos and humanity to her role.Buy this recording, listen to if frequently - you will be moved. 9 of 10 people found the following review helpful A Moving 20th Century Opera, By This review is from: Heggie: Dead Man Walking (Live recording of 2000 world premiere production) (Audio CD) This opera is quite moving. While it doesn't have the showstoppers of a Donizetti or Rossini opera some of the reviewers are looking for (few, if any modern operas will as they are through-composed), it has some haunting music that is quite moving. Time indeed will tell, and I believe that it will show this opera to be one of the greatest from the recent additions to American opera....That is missing the point and missing the enjoyment of a beautiful work of American music. The performances are superb. Buy this recording and judge for yourself. You won't be disappointed. |
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