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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...