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When contemporary opera struggles to find its own stories to tell, it plunders promiscuously from other genres — films, theatre, TV, novels. In the process, it runs the risk of becoming a mere ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...