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Composer
Based On

the book by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
Language
English
Sung Language
English
Supertitles
English
Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Archive ID
SFO_2025_02

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Associate Director
Katrina Bachus(SFO debut)
Set Designer(s)
Michael McGarty(SFO debut)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Projection Designer
Sound Designer
Chorus Director
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Diction
Jessica Berman(SFO debut)
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Fight Director
Technical Supervisor
Intimacy Coordinator
Costume Supervisor
Hair and Makeup

Cast

Teenage Boy
Chris Costanz(SFO debut)
Teenage Girl
Anna Kosiarek(SFO debut)
Joseph de Rocher
Anthony de Rocher, Joseph's brother
Zachary Cowan(SFO debut)
Sister Helen Prejean
Sister Rose
Mother
Sister Lillianne
Sister Catherine
Danielle Cheiken(SFO debut)
Jimmy Charlton
Logan Cook(SFO debut)
Mrs. Charlton
Motor Cop
Olivier Zerouali(2025 Adler Fellow)
Father Grenville, the prison chaplain
George Benton, the prison warden
First prison guard
Samuel Kidd(2025 Adler Fellow)
Second prison guard
First inmate
Second inmate
Third inmate
Fourth inmate
Fifth inmate
Paralegal
Mary Hoskins(2025 Adler Fellow)
Mrs. Patrick de Rocher, Joseph's mother
Her 19-year-old son
Ryan Torres(SFO debut)
Her 14-year-old son
Jackson Horton(SFO debut)
Owen Hart, father of the murdered girl
Kitty Hart, mother of the murdered girl
Caroline Corrales(2025 Adler Fellow)
Jade Boucher, mother of the murdered boy
Howard Boucher, father of the murdered boy
Samuel White(2025 Adler Fellow)

Show Dates

Streaming Information

The on demand period starts on 9/21 at 10am PT and ends 9/23 at 10am PT.

Time and Place

Louisiana in the early 1980s

Scenes

Prologue
Act I
Intermission
Act II

Media

Sponsors

This production is made possible, in part, by The Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions, Marcia Barinaga & Corey Goodman, Jerome & Thao Dodson, Keith & Priscilla Geeslin, Bernard & Barbro Osher, Denise Littlefield Sobel, Dianne & Tad Taube.

Patrick Summers' appearance is made possible by the Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Conductors Fund.

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera.  World premiere performance: October 7, 2000.

Notes

To access the performance program, click the PDF link above.

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Following the performance of September 14th, Jake Heggie was presented with the San Francisco Opera Medal.

Production owned by Lyric Opera of Chicago.  Originally created by: Opera Pacific, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Pittsburgh Opera, and Baltimore Opera.

SUPERNUMERARIES: schoolchildren, mothers, prison inmates, lawyers, prison guards