Sister Helen Prejean returns to the San Francisco Opera House 25 years later. Photo by Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera. Nearly three decades ago, a nun wrote a bestseller about counseling a man ...

Having so many adaptations runs a risk of redundancy, but Dead Man Walking has proven compelling enough to thrive across its many mediums. The most recent version, a graphic novel illustrated by ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A new graphic novel edition of "Dead Man Walking" has been released, co-authored by Sister Helen Prejean and Rose Vines. The graphic novel format aims to make the story accessible to a wider audience ...

The production marks both the opera’s 25th anniversary and the 30th anniversary of the Oscar-winning film adaptation starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s 1993 memoir, ...

“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 ...

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 ...