Prologue: Watching you, every day (Song on radio, Boy, Girl, Joseph De Rocher, Anthony De Rocher)
Philip Cutlip · Brian Hamlin · Matt Hune · Patrick Summers · Heather Sanders · Houston Grand Opera
Scene 1 - Hope House: He will gather us around (Sister Helen, Children, Sister Rose)
Richard Bado · Houston Grand Opera · Patrick Summers · Measha Brueggergosman · Joyce DiDonato · Chorus of Houston Grand Opera
Scene 1 - Hope House: Heavens! Look at the time (Sister Rose, First mother, Sister Lillianne, Sister Catherine, Jimmy Charlton, Mrs Charlton, Sister Helen)
Laurelle Gowing · Houston Grand Opera · Kathleen Manley · Brittany Wheeler · Zander Shepeard · Measha Brueggergosman · Kiri Deonarine · Joyce DiDonato · Patrick Summers
Scene 2 - The drive to Angola State Prison: "Be careful," people have always told me (Sister Helen, Motor cop)
Houston Grand Opera · Patrick Summers · Joyce DiDonato · Michael Sumuel
Scene 2 - The drive to Angola State Prison: This journey (Sister Helen)
Scene 3 - Outside of Angola State Penitentiary: Sister Helen? I've been waiting for you (Father Grenville, Sister Helen, Inmates)
Joyce DiDonato · Bradley Blunt · Beau Gibson · Rahki DeShon Marcelous · Wesley Landry · James Jennings · Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera · Carey Michael O'Rarden · Patrick Summers
Scene 4 - Father Grenville's office: Some of them didn't look so bad (Sister Helen, Father Grenville)
Joyce DiDonato · Beau Gibson · Patrick Summers · Houston Grand Opera
Scene 4 - Father Grenville's office: I don't like that man (Sister Helen, Warden)
Patrick Summers · Joyce DiDonato · Houston Grand Opera · Hector Vasquez
Scene 5 - The walk through Death Row: Woman on the tier! (Guards, Inmates, Warden, Sister Helen)
Rahki DeShon Marcelous · James Jennings · Michael Sumuel · Carey Michael O'Rarden · Patrick Summers · Joyce DiDonato · Wesley Landry · Hector Vasquez · Bradley Blunt · Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera · Boris Dyakov
Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: Thank you (Sister Helen, Inmates, Warden, Joseph)
Rahki DeShon Marcelous · Carey Michael O'Rarden · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Patrick Summers · Bradley Blunt · Wesley Landry · James Jennings · Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera · Hector Vasquez
Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: Are you frightened? (Sister Helen, Joseph)
Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Patrick Summers · Houston Grand Opera
Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: You ever been with a man? (Joseph, Sister Helen)
Patrick Summers · Houston Grand Opera · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip
Scene 6 - The Death Row visiting room: Five more minutes, De Rocher (First guard, Joseph, Sister Helen)
Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Patrick Summers · Michael Sumuel · Houston Grand Opera
Scene 7 - The Pardon Board hearing: The defendant's mother, Mrs Patrick De Rocher (Paralegal, Older brother, Joseph's mother)
Patrick Summers · Nancy Hall · Frederica von Stade · Houston Grand Opera · Austin Dean
Scene 7 - The Pardon Board hearing: Joe, my Joe, is not a bad boy (Joseph's mother, Owen Hart)
Houston Grand Opera · Frederica von Stade · John Packard · Patrick Summers
Scene 7 - The Pardon Board hearing: What you all say my Joe did is so terrible (Joseph's mother)
Scene 8 - The parking lot outside the courthouse: It's a good sign when they take so long to decide (Sister Rose, Sister Helen, Owen Hart, Jade Boucher, Kitty Hart, Howard Boucher)
Kiri Deonarine · Joyce DiDonato · Cheryl Parrish · Jon Kolbet · Measha Brueggergosman · Houston Grand Opera · Brittany Wheeler · Patrick Summers · Frederica von Stade · Suzanne Mentzer · John Packard
Scene 8 - The parking lot outside the courthouse: You don't know what it's like to bear a child (Jade Boucher, Kitty Hart, Sister Helen, Howard Boucher, Owen Hart, Joseph's mother)
Joyce DiDonato · Houston Grand Opera · Cheryl Parrish · Jon Kolbet · Suzanne Mentzer · Patrick Summers · Frederica von Stade · John Packard
Scene 8 - The parking lot outside the courthouse: I'm sorry. So sorry (Sister Helen, Owen Hart, Jade Boucher, Howard Boucher, Kitty Hart, Paralegal, Sister Rose)
Patrick Summers · John Packard · Measha Brueggergosman · Cheryl Parrish · Jon Kolbet · Nancy Hall · Joyce DiDonato · Houston Grand Opera · Suzanne Mentzer
Scene 9 - The Death Row visiting room: Guess your nun ain't comin' back, De Rocher (First guard, Sister Helen, Joseph)
Houston Grand Opera · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Patrick Summers · Michael Sumuel
Scene 9 - The Death Row visiting room: I believe in the here and now (Joseph, Sister Helen)
Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Houston Grand Opera · Patrick Summers
Scene 9 - The Death Row visiting room: The Bible says "the truth will set you free." (Sister Helen, Joseph, Warden) - Scene 10 - The waiting room: Excuse me. Do you have any change? (Sister Helen, First guard)
Hector Vasquez · Michael Sumuel · Patrick Summers · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Houston Grand Opera
Scene 10 - The waiting room: He will gather us around (Children, Sister Rose, Inmates, Sister Helen, Joseph, Motor cop, Joseph's mother, Kitty and Owen Hart, Jade and Howard Boucher, Father Grenville)
Frederica von Stade · Patrick Summers · Beau Gibson · Austin Dean · Rahki DeShon Marcelous · Michael Sumuel · Suzanne Mentzer · Cheryl Parrish · Jon Kolbet · Wesley Landry · Leslie Biffle · Cullen King · Houston Grand Opera · Richard Bado · Carey Michael O'Rarden · Joyce DiDonato · Chorus of Houston Grand Opera · Philip Cutlip · Measha Brueggergosman · Bradley Blunt · John Packard · James Jennings
Scene 10 - The waiting room: What happened? (Sister Helen, Warden, Sisters, Children, Joseph, Kitty and Owen Hart, Jade and Howard Boucher, Joseph's mother, Inmates, Motor cop, Father Grenville)
Kiri Deonarine · Joyce DiDonato · Wesley Landry · Patrick Summers · Chorus of Houston Grand Opera · Philip Cutlip · Carey Michael O'Rarden · Bradley Blunt · Cheryl Parrish · Jon Kolbet · Beau Gibson · James Jennings · Frederica von Stade · Rahki DeShon Marcelous · Brittany Wheeler · John Packard · Michael Sumuel · Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera · Suzanne Mentzer · Richard Bado · Hector Vasquez · Measha Brueggergosman
Scene 1 - Joseph's cell: 31 ... 32 ... 33 ... (Joseph, Warden)
Houston Grand Opera · Jimmy Demers · Tollak Ollestad · Mike Thompson · Hector Vasquez · Todd Sucherman · Philip Cutlip · Patrick Summers · Larry Kimpel
Scene 1 - Joseph's cell: Everybody hear that? (Joseph, Warden, Inmates)
Carey Michael O'Rarden · Philip Cutlip · Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera · Hector Vasquez · Wesley Landry · Patrick Summers · Rahki DeShon Marcelous · James Jennings · Bradley Blunt
Scene 1 - Joseph's cell: The girl. I remember the girl (Joseph)
Philip Cutlip · Houston Grand Opera · Patrick Summers
Scene 2 - Sister Helen's bedroom: Oh! ... Now and at the hour of our death. Amen (Sister Helen, Sister Rose)
Scene 2 - Sister Helen's bedroom: God's love and forgiveness (Sister Rose, Sister Helen)
Scene 3 - Joseph's cell. August 4 in the evening: Well? Well? (Inmates) - What time is it? (Joseph, Sister Helen)
Rahki DeShon Marcelous · Patrick Summers · Carey Michael O'Rarden · James Jennings · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Wesley Landry · Bradley Blunt · Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera
Scene 3 - Joseph's cell. August 4 in the evening: I'm scared, OK? (Joseph, Sister Helen, First guard)
Michael Sumuel · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Houston Grand Opera · Patrick Summers
Scene 4 - The visiting room: The new Ford Mustangs are so cool (Joseph's brothers, Joseph, Joseph's mother, Sister Helen)
Patrick Summers · Cullen King · Houston Grand Opera · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Austin Dean · Frederica von Stade
Scene 4 - The visiting room: All those people out there (Joseph's mother, Sister Helen, First guard, Joseph, Second guard, Younger brother, Warden)
Cullen King · Houston Grand Opera · Hector Vasquez · Frederica von Stade · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Boris Dyakov · Patrick Summers · Michael Sumuel
Scene 4 - The visiting room: Don't say a word (Joseph's mother, Joseph, Sister Helen)
Houston Grand Opera · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Patrick Summers · Frederica von Stade
Scene 4 - The visiting room: Who will walk with me? (Sister Helen)
Scene 5 - Outside of the Death House: Good evening (Sister Helen, Howard and Jade Boucher, Kitty and Owen Hart, Second guard)
John Packard · Houston Grand Opera · Suzanne Mentzer · Boris Dyakov · Joyce DiDonato · Cheryl Parrish · Jon Kolbet · Patrick Summers
Scene 5 - Outside of the Death House: I've said some harsh things (Owen Hart, Sister Helen)
Patrick Summers · Houston Grand Opera · Joyce DiDonato · John Packard
Scene 6 - Joseph's holding cell: You're a regular illustrated man, De Rocher (First guard, Second guard, Inmates)
Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera · Bradley Blunt · Michael Sumuel · Patrick Summers · Carey Michael O'Rarden · Wesley Landry · Boris Dyakov · Rahki DeShon Marcelous · James Jennings
Scene 7 - The Confession: How much longer? How much more time? (Joseph, Sister Helen, Inmates)
Patrick Summers · Rahki DeShon Marcelous · Bradley Blunt · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · James Jennings · Wesley Landry · Leslie Biffle · Houston Grand Opera · Carey Michael O'Rarden
Scene 7 - The Confession: We'd been drinkin' and smokin' weed at the road house (Joseph, Sister Helen)
Patrick Summers · Houston Grand Opera · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip
Scene 7 - The Confession: I killed her (Joseph, Sister Helen, Warden, Father Grenville)
Beau Gibson · Patrick Summers · Hector Vasquez · Joyce DiDonato · Philip Cutlip · Houston Grand Opera
Scene 8 - The Execution: Dead Man Walking! (Warden, Father Grenville, Joseph, Sister Helen, Kitty and Owen Hart, Jade and Howard Boucher, Guards, Sisters and Mothers of the prayer vigil outside the prison, Inmates)
Richard Bado · Rahki DeShon Marcelous · Hector Vasquez · Patrick Summers · Beau Gibson · Boris Dyakov · Cheryl Parrish · Jon Kolbet · Suzanne Mentzer · Leslie Biffle · Wesley Landry · Houston Grand Opera · Michael Sumuel · James Jennings · John Packard · Bradley Blunt · Carey Michael O'Rarden · Joyce DiDonato · Chorus of Houston Grand Opera · Philip Cutlip
Scene 8 - The Execution: He will gather us around, all around (Sister Helen)