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 ...
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 ...
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 ...