Miami Music Festival Presents Dead Man Walking
Thursday, 07/27/2017 – 07/29/2017 07:30 pm – 09:30 pm
Shepard & Ruth K. Broad Performing Arts Center, Barry University
11300 NE 2ND AVENUE,
MIAMI SHORES, Florida 33161
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Cost: General Admission $15 / Preferred Seating $35 – includes two drink tickets

Miami Music Festival, an intensive training program for the next generation of classical musicians to work with mentors and gain performing experience, announces the lineup for the 2017 season from June 6 through July 30, 2017. In their fourth season, MMF will present a series of Operas as part of the MMF’s Opera Institute.

In this South Florida premiere based on the impactful book and film of the same name, acclaimed composer Jake Heggie takes on a true story that helped frame the modern debate on the death penalty in America. When a Catholic nun in New Orleans agrees to become penpals with a death-row inmate convicted of murder, her perspectives on life, death, forgiveness, and capital punishment are forever altered. With a libretto by the Tony Award-winning playwright Terrance McNally (Masterclass, Ragtime), Dead Man Walking brings one of the most powerful contemporary American operas—and one of opera’s most important contemporary composers—to South Florida.