Heggie: Dead Man Walking

'If the opera seemed good before, it's rather better now... DiDonato [comes to the vocal lines almost as heightened speech... [and] leaves no question that she'll get a confession out of the killer. DiDonato also makes the nun and murderer soul mates... As the killer, Philip Cutler is prickly and vocally imposing in his early scenes. But later on he becomes rhetorically understated in ways that make his ultimate confession even more devastating.'
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