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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...