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 ...
Dead Man Walking, a contemporary opera composed by Jake Heggie with a libretto by Terrence McNally and first performed in 2000, is based on the 1993 memoir by Louisiana nun Sister Helen Prejean. The ...
Dead Man Walking had its origins in a 1993 memoir by Helen Prejean, an American catholic nun, telling of her experiences in comforting inmates on Death Row in a US jail. The book became a New York ...