Sister Helen Prejean's 'Dead Man Walking' arrives at Met in Jake Heggie's operatic version

Sister Helen Prejean remembered when she first spoke with Jake Heggie about adapting her book “Dead Man Walking.” “I don’t know boo-scat about opera,” she told him. The most-performed 21st century opera reaches the Metropolitan Opera for the season’s opening night Tuesday in a production by Tony and Olivier Award winner Ivo van Hove starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen.

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