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? Are we going to be able to hum a tune when we come out? And the other thing, I just want to hear from you is it got the theme of journey of redemption.”
