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Sister Helen Prejean's 'Dead Man Walking' arrives at Met in Jake Heggie's operatic version
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This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Ryan McKinny as Joseph De Rocher, foreground left, Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean, foreground center, and Raymond Aceto as George Benton in Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking" on Sept. 15, in New York. - photo by Karen Almond/Met Opera via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — 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. “I just got two requests. One, you’re not going to do that atonal thing, are you?