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 ...

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 ...

LINCOLN CENTER, Manhattan -- The NYPD is looking for the man who they say sprinkled some kind of powder into the orchestra pit at the Metropolitan Opera House, prompting an evacuation from the theater ...

It may be the world’s first opera based on a comic strip. Based on the animated serial by Shannon Wheeler, “Too Much Coffee Man Opera” follows our caffeinated hero, Too Much Coffee Man, as he trudges ...

“We are beyond thrilled to collaborate with Beth Morrison Projects and the Wexner Center for the Arts to bring The Old Man and the Sea game-changer experience to Columbus,” said Julia Noulin-Mérat, ...

Stephen Wall, tenor and longtime Seattle Opera Chorus member, is retiring after the company's upcoming "Tosca" performances. Wall also became known as Ballard Opera Man, when he performed in his front ...