Dead Man Walking (Opera)
Music by Jake Heggie
Libretto Terrence McNally
Director: Adam Mitchell
Musical Director/Arrangments: Tommaso Pollio
Designer: Rhiannon Walker
Lighting Design: Jerry Reinhardt
Poduction: Stephen Carr
Muscians: Tommaso Pollio, Cathie Travers, Sophie Curtis and Geoff Bourgault, Perry Joyce (Backstage Conductor)
Cast: Lachlan Higgins, Harriet Marshall, Lisa Harper Brown, Sara Macliver, Prudence Sanders, Perry Joyce, Brigitte Heuser, Brett Peart, Robert Hofmann, Kohsei Gilkes, Tom Buckmaster, Caitlin Cassidy, Charis Postmus, Euan MacMillan, Kyle Garces, Sam Claxton, Brandon Orgill, David Bell, Kyle Garces, Euan Macmillan
Chorus: Genevieve Del Casale, Aimee Ryan, Bronwen Jones, Katelyn Cobb, Louisa Ketterer & Chelita Fontana, Ben del Borrello, Vin Trikeriotis, Adam Gannon, Ben Small, Nicholas Hockley, Xavier Robert & Dec Huxley Oracion
Fremantle Prison,
Freeze Frame Opera,
June, 2025
Awards (Performing Arts WA Awards):
Best Production - (Musicals, Opera and Cabaret)
Outstanding Direction - Adam Mitchell
Outstanding Lighting Design - Jerry Reinhardt
Outstanding Arranging - Tommaso Pollio
Outstanding Newcomer - Lachlan Higgins
“Performed at Fremantle Prison, Freeze Frame Opera’s Dead Man Walking is a landmark production, opera as catharsis and critique.”
“profoundly moving and evocative production”