Kerem Hasan shares his experience of conducting Jake Heggie's "Dead Man Walking".
In the second act of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally's opera, a devastating scene unfolds as Joseph De Rocher, a man condemned to death, has a final, inconsolable goodbye with his mother, accompanied by his spiritual advisor Sister Helen Prejean, before his impending execution.
A final, inconsolable goodbye before De Rocher is processed for his impending execution.
Author's summary: Kerem Hasan conducts "Dead Man Walking".