Twenty-five years ago, a new opera titled “Dead Man Walking” made its world premiere in a San Francisco Opera production. Based on the same-titled 1993 memoir by author and activist Sister Helen ...

The opening scene of “Dead Man Walking” immediately garnered discomfort: Dark, unsettling music echoed throughout the auditorium as two teenagers’ risqué lakeside rendezvous became the site of ...

Jamie Barton as Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s ‘Dead Man Walking.’ (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) For the past week, the U.S. government has demanded that Americans ...

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English National Opera (ENO) brings a new production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking to the London Coliseum this November, directed by Annilese Miskimmon, ENO’s Artistic Director. See photos of the ...

A full quarter century after the premiere of "Dead Man Walking" here on the War Memorial Opera stage, it's hard to overstate the impact that Jake Heggie's first major offering has had, both on his ...

In the time it has taken Dead Man Walking to almost reach us in London, we’ve had two elaborate, fully staged productions of Nico Muhly oratorios masquerading as operas (and at least one by John Adams ...

Jake Heggie’s work, premiered 25 years ago and staged 80 times around the world to date, isn’t perfect. It starts with a haunting, lopsided flow not a million miles away from the opening of Britten’s ...

The opera, based on the novel by Prejean, will be performed Saturday and Sunday at the Tulsa PAC. JAMES GIBBARD / Tulsa World JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer Everything that opera should be, ...