Dead Man Walking at Place des Arts

In its big Quebec premiere: a powerful, leading work of today’s opera repertoire—acclaimed the world over—and a strong appeal against the death penalty. The true story of Sister Helen Prejean, which inspired the Oscar-winning film, is staged here by one of the leading lights of Canadian opera stage direction, Alain Gauthier.

In his cell, a prisoner condemned to die awaits his final hour, abandoned by all. One person dares to make her way through the prison gates, a nun who cannot tolerate the idea of a man dying without the face of love before him…