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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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