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 ...

Dead Man Walking is compelling and engaging – with superb performances, especially from mezzo-soprano Christine Rice – is it ...

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 ...

“If you want to experience contemporary opera at its most compelling, harrowing and intensely delivered”, said Richard Morrison in The Times, go and see English National Opera’s “stunning” new ...

San Francisco Opera will present the 25th-anniversary production of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking from September 14–28 at the War Memorial Opera House. The landmark opera, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The opera "Dead Man Walking" features music by composer Jake Heggie and lyrics by librettist Terrence McNally. Prior to the opera being finished, Sister Prejean, who said she didn't know anything ...

As an opera conductor, I find myself maintaining a fine balance between keeping a practical, level-headed overview of the elements under my leadership; the balance of the orchestra, the way the stage ...

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, ...