Hopkins also decided to use his tribute as a platform to bring awareness to gender-based violence.
Feeling numb and helpless at the loss of his sister, he talked it over with his wife, who agreed that “the best way to honor her and the two other women would be through art,” he says. The news shook the close-knit county in eastern Ontario where the victims had lived and shone a harsh spotlight on domestic violence, especially in Canada’s rural communities.īut for Joshua Hopkins, Warmerdam’s brother and an acclaimed operatic baritone, the murders hit especially close to home. In September of 2015, Nathalie Warmerdam was slain by an abusive former boyfriend who had killed two other exes mere hours before. “Songs for Murdered Sisters” begins in tragedy. Patrick Summers-who conducted the opera’s world premiere a decade ago as well as the acclaimed recording on Erato-conducts Houston Grand Opera’s performances, Leonard Foglia directs.Īdult content: contains strong language, nudity, and depictions of sexual activity and violence.ĭead Man Walking was commissioned by the San Francisco Opera.Ī co-production of Opera Pacific, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Opera and Baltimore Opera.Baritone Joshua Hopkins (foreground) on the scoring stage of Skywalker Sound for 'Songs for Murdered Sisters." He's with an image of his sister Nathalie Warmerdam and her two children Valerie and Adrian (background). Legendary mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade marks her farewell to the operatic stage with these appearances as De Rocher’s mother and Measha Brueggergosman makes her HGO debut as Sister Rose. Joseph De Rocher (Philip Cutlip) leads a lonely life on death row until Sister Helen Prejean (Joyce DiDonato) arrives as his spiritual advisor. and Europe in the decade since its premiere. A story of compassion and redemption, Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking has played to sold-out houses across the U.S.
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